Lincoln in Private: What His Most Personal Reflections Tell Us About Our Greatest President 9781984855107

Exploring Lincoln: Great Historians Reappraise Our Greatest President 9780823265657

Ubiquitous and enigmatic, the historical Lincoln, the literary Lincoln, even the cinematic Lincoln have all proved both

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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future 052552231X, 9780525522317

One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year A New York Times Notable Book From leading scholar James Shapir

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Vindicating Lincoln : Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President 9781442200647, 9780742559738

Was Abraham Lincoln a racist, as some critics would have us believe? Was he the father of big government, as some others

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Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us about How the Brain Works 1399801201, 9781399801201

The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creat

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Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves 9781250235046

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Psychopathology and Philosophy of Mind: What Mental Disorders Can Tell Us About Our Minds [1 ed.] 0367444577, 9780367444570

This book explores how the human mind works through the lens of psychological disorders, challenging many existing theor

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The Fifth Beginning: What Six Million Years of Human History Can Tell Us about Our Future 9780520966369

“I have seen yesterday. I know tomorrow.” This inscription in Tutankhamun’s tomb summarizes The Fifth Beginning. Here, a

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Lives in Crises: What Do People Tell Us about the Humanitarian Aid They Receive? 9264632549, 9789264632547

In May 2016, the World Humanitarian Summit represented a turning point for humanitarian policies. The Summit gave the im

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Lincoln's Men: The President and His Private Secretaries 0061987824, 9780061987823

“An intimate portrait of Lincoln, so well-drawn that he seems to come alive on the page.” —Charleston Post & Courier

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Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture 9780691185439, 9780691162829

How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries—and why that might be a good thing The digital

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