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Nothin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour & Richard Bienstock THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated -- and maybe even helped to define -- a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed,… Read more about this item

Enslaved: The Sunken History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Simcha Jacobovici & Sean Kingsley From the writers behind the acclaimed documentary series Enslaved (starring Samuel L. Jackson), comes a rich and timely narrative of the true global and human scope of the transatlantic slave trade. The trade existed for four-hundred years, during which twelve million people were trafficked, and almost… Read more about this item

Congo: The Epic History of a People by David Van Reybrouck THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. The Democratic Republic of Congo currently ranks among the world's most failed nation-states, second only to war-torn Somalia. David Van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the history of this devastated nation from the beginnings of the… Read more about this item

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of… Read more about this item

Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia by Diana Preston The mutiny on the Bounty in April 1789 and the survival of William Bligh and his men on the open ocean for 48 days and 3,618 miles have become the stuff of legend. But few realize that Bligh's was not the only open-boat journey in that era… Read more about this item

Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued -- through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in… Read more about this item