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Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900

By Hair, William Ivy

Gandhi's Significance for Today: The Elusive Legacy

By Hick, John Harwood, Hempel, Lamont C., Maguire, John

North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

By Andrews, William L.

My Life, Our Times: Gordon Brown

By Brown, Gordon

Beating Against the Barriers: Lives of Six Ninteenth-Century Afro-Americans

By Blackett, R. J. M.

Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White

By Hodges, G.

Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives

By Escott, Paul D.

AFRICA MUST UNITE

By Nkrumah, Kwame

Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences) (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences)

By Harshav, Benjamin

Blasket Memories: The Life of an Irish Island Community

By Padraig Tyers

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

By Ori Brafman, Rod A. Beckstrom

Self-Help (Oxford World's Classics)

By Smiles, Samuel, Sinnema, Peter W.

Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse

By Thwaite, Ann

The Illustrated Lark Rise To Candleford.

By Thompson, Flora

Letters from America, 1946-1951

By Cooke, Alistair

Pimp: The Story Of My Life (Canons)

By Slim, Iceberg, Welsh, Irvine

Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London

By Worth, Jennifer

It Must Never Happen Again: The Lessons Learnt from the Short Life and Terrible Death of Baby P

By Mcshane, John

The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood

By Epstein, Edward Jay

The Economist Book of Obituaries (Economist Books)

By Ann Wroe, Keith Colquhoun

Turing And The Computer (Big Idea)

By Strathern, Paul

Reinvented Lives: Women at Sixty: A Celebration

By Handy, Charles, Elizabeth

The Strange Career of Jim Crow: A Commemorative Edition with a new afterword by William S. McFeely

By Woodward, C. Vann, Mcfeely, William S.

The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society

By Neima, Anna

The Explorer's Daughter: A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood

By Herbert, Kari

Hitler (Profiles In Power)

By Kershaw, I.

How Do You Know Its True?: Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition

By Ruchlis, Hy

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

By Gbowee, Leymah

Eclipse of Reason

By Horkheimer, Max

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography (Little House Nonfiction)

By Anderson, WILLIAM