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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
1780A National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle finalist, Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy is a remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Award-winning journalist Barbara Demick follows the lives of six North Korean citizens over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the rise to power of his son Kim Jong-il, and a devastating famine that killed one-fifth of the population. Demick brings to life what it mean…
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
1523The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.
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Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe
1015The nuclear accident at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 had a heavy impact on life, health, and the environment. It caused agony to people in the Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia and anxiety far away from these countries. The economic losses and social dislocation were severe in a region already under strain. It is now possible to make more accurate assessments of these effects than it was in the first few years following the catastrophe. An internationally known author, speaker, and medical physicis…
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Boys Will Be Boys!
887Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some markings on the inside. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include companion materials.
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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
729Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general.
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Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
705Intriguing stories of how people have died in Yellowstone warn about the many dangers that exist there and in wild areas in general.
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So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
515Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world’s most underappreciated forces: shame. ‘It’s about the terror, isn’t it?’ ‘The terror of what?’ I said. ‘The terror of being found out.’ For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us – people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mis…
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
439With a New ForewordThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escapedNorth Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world’s most repressive totalitaria…
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
402In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.