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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία - historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it sometimes attempts to investigate objectively the patterns of cause and effect that determine events. Historians debate the nature of history and its usefulness. This includes
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Someone to Watch Over Me: A Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Tortured Father Who Shaped Her Life
by Eric Burns
by Eric Burns
Release
date: Mar 14, 2017
From the author of 1920 and THE GOLDEN LAD comes a fresh and sensitive examination of Eleanor Roosevelt and the tortured father who would inspire and
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Availability: 3 copies available, 484 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 03 - Jan 03, 2017
Countries available: US
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Do Svidanya Dad: Tracing the Story of an American Family Trapped in the USSR
by Karen Wardamasky Bobrow (Goodreads Author)
by Karen Wardamasky Bobrow (Goodreads Author)
Release
date: May 08, 2016
On a December evening in 1931, a twelve year old boy leaves his familiar life behind as he and his family sail out of New York Harbor on the first leg
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Availability: 2 copies available, 199 people requesting
Giveaway dates: Dec 24 - Jan 08, 2017
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The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State
by Fang Lizhi
by Fang Lizhi
Release
date: Feb 07, 2017
Enter for a chance to win a copy of Fang Lizhi's The Most Wanted Man in China: My Journey from Scientist to Enemy of the State!
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Giveaway dates: Dec 03 - Feb 09, 2017
Countries available: US
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Stacy Schiff
Author of Cleopatra
Stacy Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize, the Ambassador Award in American Studies, and the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Institut Français d'Amérique. All three were New York Times Notable Books; the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, and The Economist also named A Great Improvisation a Best Book of the Year. The biographies have been published in a host of foreign editions.
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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
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― Virginia Woolf
― Virginia Woolf
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