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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Written by two leading historians, Brazil: A Biography is a sweeping and absorbing portrait of Brazil from its origins to the twenty-first century. For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazile received more than 40 percent of the African population that was stolen from the continent, and was the...
4) Copia: poems
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 144
Publisher
BOA Editions Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Started as a VQR documentary-project, Copia examines the now-bankrupt city of Detroit, once the thriving heart of the American Dream. "--
"This is a volume of original American poetry"--
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains where the last truly quiet town of America exists and where its residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity, challenging us to rethink the role of tech in our lives.
Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned. It is home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight - and at what cost.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict. Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick illuminates a part of China and the aggressions of this superpower that have been largely off limits to Westerners who have long romanticized...
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