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  • The Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman

    by Carol Garrard, John Garrard ...
    "A definitive treatment of one of the Soviet Union's most significant writers."—The Russian ReviewVasily Grossman (1905–64), one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, served for over 1,000 days with the Red Army as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. He was present during the street-fighting at Stalingrad, and his 1944 report "The Hell of Treblinka," was the first eyewitness ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heads of the Local State

    Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800

    Edited by John Garrard ...
    In recent decades there has been increasing historical interest in various aspects of local urban politics, resulting in a much better understanding of the recruitment and socio-economic characteristics of municipal leadership and the exercise of power at a local level. However, much less is known about the highly important offices and office-holders standing at the ceremonial, political and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Twin Cities across Five Continents

    Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders

    Edited by Ekaterina Mikhailova, John Garrard ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain.With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent

    Faith and Power in the New Russia

    by John Garrard, Carol Garrard ...
    Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent is the first book to fully explore the expansive and ill-understood role that Russia's ancient Christian faith has played in the fall of Soviet Communism and in the rise of Russian nationalism today. John and Carol Garrard tell the story of how the Orthodox Church's moral weight helped defeat the 1991 coup against Gorbachev launched by Communist Party hardliners. The ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Twin Cities

    Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time

    Edited by John Garrard, Ekaterina Mikhailova ...
    Series series Global Urban Studies
    This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time.The chapters explore a variety of urban formations including independent cities located side-by-side; cities that have merged ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America

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  • Chicago's Great Fire

    The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City

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    A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination.Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago had grown at a breathtaking pace in the intervening decades—and much of the ... Read more

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    A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

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    "A searing memoir-meets-manifesto . . . [arguing] that society needs to radically reframe the crime of rape and how we think about survival." ―Gabrielle Korn, author of Yours for the TakingLonglisted for the 2020 National Book Award for NonfictionTime 's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020Publishers Weekly , Best Books of 2020</p... ... Read more

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  • Girl Gurl Grrrl

    On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic

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    The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America's First Humanitarian Mission

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    “Puleo has found a new way to tell the story with this well-researched and splendidly written chronicle of the Jamestown, its captain, and an Irish priest who ministered to the starving in Cork city…Puleo’s tale, despite the hardship to come, surely is a tribute to the better angels of America’s nature, and in that sense, it couldn’t be more timely.” **—**The Wall Street JournalThe remarkable ... Read more

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  • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

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    by Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty ...
    Newly updated: "An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history." — The American ProspectPraised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). From indentured servants and slaves in seventeenth-century Chesapeake to high-tech ... Read more

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  • Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend

    Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump

    by Ben Philippe ...
    A biting, hilarious memoir in essays chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend* in white spaces. (*see also: foreign kid, boyfriend, coworker, student, teacher, enemy)"Flat-out funny. . . This is a great next-book for fans of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life , but if a reader hasn't turned to either of those yet, Phili... ... Read more

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