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  • The History of the Future

    American Essays

    A collection of long essays centered on American places where the past is erupting into the present in unexpected ways.What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for ... Leer más

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  • The Backwash Squeeze and Other Improbable Feats

    A Bridge Odyessey

    There is one card game that towers above all others as the most intelligent, intricate, and psychologically absorbing ever to be invented. It has a rich history. It's played and loved by some of the world's most famous and influential people. And it's not the one that's currently on television twenty-four hours a day.In 1925 Harold Stirling Vanderbilt invented modern bridge, and a national craze ... Leer más

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  • Look Out

    The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View

    "A charming, idiosyncratic meditation on the human urge to see further, and more, in this cultural history of the 'aerial view' . . . McPherson makes an elliptical and enchanting case for reinserting wherever possible the ground-level, human perspective . . . Redolent with insights into the ethical quandary of history-making, as well as the author’s own sense of awe at the full sweep of the human ... Leer más

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  • Now I Know

    The Revealing Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts

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    Covering 100 outrageous topics, Now I Know is the ultimate challenge for any know-it-all who thinks they have nothing left to learn.Praise for the Webby Award-winning newsletter: “I eagerly read Now I Know every day. It’s always fresh, always a surprise, and always interesting!” —Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and WikiaDid you know that there are actually twenty-seven letters in the alphabet, ... Leer más

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  • Uncle John's Weird Weird World Epic

    A collection of some of the wildest and weirdest trivia packed with incredible facts, obscure history, interesting origins, bizarre quotes, and more.The second fully illustrated entry in Uncle John's popular new Weird, Weird World series opens a portal to the bizarre. It's page after page of unbelievable history, odd origins, tales of amazing luck, kooky conspiracy theories, epic fails, astounding ... Leer más

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  • World War Z

    An Oral History of the Zombie War

    de Max Brooks ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment WeeklyWe survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who ... Leer más

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  • Maphead

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    Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.The “haunting . . . impressive” (NYTBR) National Bestseller-imagining the untold human history of the making of the atomic bomb.They arrived ... Leer más

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  • Full Body Burden

    Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats

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    The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World's Most Interesting Facts

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