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American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1

By: Alan Taylor

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Penguin Books: July 2002

Seller ID: 242117

ISBN: 0142002100

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

A multicultural, multinational history of colonial America from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Internal Enemy and American Revolutions

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from milennia past, through the decades of Western colonization and conquest, and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.

Transcending the usual Anglocentric version ...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

By: Boo, Katherine

Price: $6.98

Publisher: Random House: February 2012

Seller ID: 273828

ISBN: 1400067553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle clas...
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