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1) Hamilton: the revolution : being the complete libretto of the Broadway musical, with a true account of its creation, and concise remarks on hip-hop, the power of stories, and the new America

Author

Miranda, Lin-Manuel

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

2) Born A Crime

Author

Noah, Trevor

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

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Book, Playaway

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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 Dailyshow (the book): an oral history as told by Jon Stewart, the correspondents, staff and guests

Author

Smith, Chris

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

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For almost 17 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, for the first time, the people behind the show's seminal moments come together to share their memories of one of America's most groundbreaking shows.--...

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) Sapiens: a brief history of humankind

Author

Harari, Yuval N

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

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Book, Book on CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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"One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one--homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition."--

6) Humans of New York: stories

Author

Stanton, Brandon

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#7 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. Ever since Brandon began interviewing people on the streets of New York, the dialogue he's had with them has increasingly become as in-depth, intriguing and moving as the photos themselves. Humans of New York: Stories...

7) At the existentialist café: 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.

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Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography and philosophy, Bakewell provides an investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting...

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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A prominent classicist explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and criminals.

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.

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Did you know that your answers to just a handful of questions can predict the zip code of where you grew up? In 2013, Josh Katz accumulated and visually mapped over 350,000 unique survey responses to questions about word choice and pronunciation throughout America. His dialect quiz quickly became the most viewed webpage in the history of the New York Times. In Speaking American, Katz offers a visual atlas of the American vernacular -- who says what,...