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In the Arena: Theodore Roosevelt in War, Peace, and Revolution

by David S. Brown

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Napoleon: A Life

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Mahdist War: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History

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The Mahdist War, which took place at the end of the nineteenth century, was officially a war against colonialism in Sudan. In reality, though, it was much more than that; fighting took place across a continent, and reverberations were felt ...more

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“In all souls, as in all houses, beyond the façade lies a hidden interior. —RAUL BRANDÃO”
― José Saramago, Skylight: A Novel

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“So far, I was mostly using tools from people I knew or tools that were well established. I knew and trusted the technologists at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who made the HTTPS Everywhere software. Little Snitch was a well-known program. Similarly, 1Password was well established.”
― Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

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“Debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion,”
― Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

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“Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur.
How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness.
-Rene Char”
― Samuel Hazo, The Time Remaining

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“He began again with poetry—Os poemas possíveis (Possible Poems) and Provavelmente alegria (Joy Probably)—then wrote O ano de 1993 (The Year of 1993), which is already on its way to becoming a narrative, followed by two collections of his newspaper articles, which are also fictions in embryo.”
― José Saramago, Skylight: A Novel

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