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Jun 1, 2009
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Michael Kucher
About My Library
Items listed here are mostly books I've liked. I own some of them, Seattle Public Library owns most of the others.
About Me
I live in Seattle. Teach history. Cook and read a lot.
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Seattle
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http://faculty.washington.edu/kucher/
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Paradise found : nature in America at the time of discovery by Steve Nicholls
An edible history of humanity by Tom Standage
River of Smoke: A Novel by Amitav Ghosh
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd
Storms of my grandchildren : the truth about the coming climate catastrophe and our last chance to save humanity by James E. Hansen
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
Peter Pan and Wendy: Centenary Edition (Sterling Illustrated Classics) by J. M. Barrie
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
The hare with amber eyes : a hidden inheritance by Edmund De Waal
Cockroaches: The Second Inspector Harry Hole Novel (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original) by Jo Nesbo
The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down by Colin Woodard
The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel Brown
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf
The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity (James H. Silberman Book) by Norman Doidge
Small Gods by Terry Pratchett Terri Pratchett
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Dance of the reptiles : selected columns by Carl Hiaasen
Caesar: Life of a Colossus by Adrian Goldsworthy
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America by Richard White
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright
The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) by Ibram X. Kendi
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Welcome to the Monkey House: A Collection of Short Works by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy
Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
M: Son of the Century: A Novel by Antonio Scurati
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter
Debt: The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability by Annette Kehnel
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