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🍇 Test your wine knowledge!

Do you know where the world's oldest winery is located or why women were forbidden to drink wine in Ancient Greece and Rome?

Take a few sips from @ProfKBurk's WINE, a global history. It's the perfect gift for history buffs and oenophiles.

Learn more: https://t.co/jCCHLm0iCL

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Translated and annotated by renowned scholar Robin Waterfield, this definitive translation of AESOP'S FABLES is now available in paperback, featuring a stunning new cover. 🦊🌿

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Cover reveal…ONE DAY FREE!

The extraordinary account of @vkaramurza's career, persecution, and resistance as Vladimir Putin transformed Russia from a flawed democracy to a full-fledged dictatorship.

Learn more: https://t.co/cBlypQupQN

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Happy publication day to LEVEL UP!

“A compelling roadmap for building organizations where collaboration flourishes and performance follows.” —Kyle McDowell, author of Begin with WE

Learn more: https://t.co/tL8CZxfdpC

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Thoroughly enjoyed talking to CBC about “The First Ghetto” alongside the other @CundillPrize finalists - do have a listen!

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📖 Out today in paperback: Adam Smyth's THE BOOK-MAKERS, a five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.

“Almost every page—almost every paragraph—fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest.” —Wall Street Journal

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In 1527, a Spanish expedition set out to colonize Florida. But the mission quickly descended into a desperate fight for survival.

A LAND SO STRANGE by Andrés Reséndez tells the true story of their survival and the world they encountered along the way.

Learn more: https://t.co/QVS09OhDkP

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Publishers Weekly praises THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE:

"Halpern... delivers a solid account of two Austrian physicists who famously debated the existence of atoms in the late 19th century. [I]ntriguing intellectual history... [and] an accessible look at a critical scientific era."

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📚✨Four books about books for the book lovers among us! 📚✨

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The authoritative global history of the world’s best-known and most influential book is now available in paperback!

Breathtakingly global in scope, THE BIBLE tells the story of this sacred book through the stories of its many and diverse human encounters, revealing not a static text but a living, dynamic cultural force.

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In LETTERS TO A YOUNG THERAPIST, psychologist Mary Pipher shares what she has learned in thirty years of clinical practice helping warring families, alienated adolescents, and harried professionals restore peace and beauty to their lives.

Enjoy some pockets of wisdom from the updated edition of this powerfully engaging guide to living a healthy life, available now.

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THE BOOKSHOP by Andrew Pettegree tells the complete global history of the rise and transformation of bookstores, from medieval book merchants to today's neighborhood indies.

Available now, wherever books are sold. https://t.co/tP7bN7lbno

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@JonHaidt was on @CBSMornings with Gayle King and Vladimir Duthiers to discuss his book, THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS, and how ages-old wisdom can help us flourish in these distracting digital times. 🐘☀️

Learn more: https://t.co/nLdT8E1Hab

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Check out Stuart Firestein's, author of IT COULD BE OTHERWISE, recent interview with Blue Continuum to learn more about science in the age of uncertainty.

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[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

I have a new book out today, sort of! The 20th anniversary revised edition of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.
Here's the new preface, explaining why ancient wisdom is even more important today:

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When each day can bring new reasons for outrage or despair, @PaulLoeb answers with stories of hope, inspiration, and raw courage in the revised edition of THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE.

Grab your copy today and be inspired by 52+ powerful voices including Nelson Mandela, @jesmimi, Bill McKibben, @HC_Richardson, Desmond Tutu, and Alice Walker.

Learn more: https://t.co/k7QcSmrkW2

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The world depends on a tangle of underwater cables and pipes on the ocean floor. As award-winning security expert Elisabeth Braw reveals in her latest book, UNDERSEA WAR, an invisible battle over those cables and pipelines is just ramping up.

Learn more: https://t.co/WAqCfk1g9Z

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✈️ THE FLIGHT NURSES’ WAR is out TODAY!

To celebrate publication day, author and historian Leah Garrett shares one of her favorite unsung stories about one brave combat nurse sent into the Pacific Theater.

Learn more: https://t.co/Da0nwEdpxe

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What does it take to be happy? To flourish?

@JonHaidt, New York Times bestselling author of THE HAPPINESS HYPOTHESIS and THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, offers a path and some words of wisdom that may make you rethink your next New Years resolutions.

Learn more: https://t.co/CfxXDKCuAr

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Updated Book Alert: The Impossible Will Take a Little While, by Paul Loeb. A collection of stories and essays on how activist political movements can change the world https://t.co/YHwimGHyDS @PaulLoeb, @BasicBooks @SocialJustice @Activism @socialchange @democracy @resistance