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1) hamilton the revolution being the complete librett

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2) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Noah, Trevor

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#2 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...

3) The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

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Smith, Chris

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#3 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

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The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today's most significant comedians, highlighted the hypocrisies of the powerful, and garnered 23 Emmys. Now...

4) The case of beasts: explore the film wizardry of fantastic beasts and where to find them

Author

Salisbury, Mark

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#4 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

5) Humans of New York: stories

Author

Stanton, Brandon

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#5 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

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In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project--to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The photos he took and the accompanying interviews became the blog Humans of New York. His audience steadily grew from a few hundred followers to, at present count, over twelve million. In 2013, his book Humans of New York, based on that blog, was published and immediately catapulted to the top of the NY...

6) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Harari, Yuval Noah

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#6 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

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eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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New York Times Bestseller

A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be "human."

One hundred thousand

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7) At the existentialist cafe: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others

Author

Bakewell, Sarah

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#8 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

8) SPQR: a history of ancient Rome

Author

Beard, Mary

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#9 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.

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New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book
Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)
Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)
A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection
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9) Speaking American: how y'all, youse, and you guys talk : a visual guide

Author

Katz, Josh

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#10 on the Culture list for 2017-01-15.