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One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021



A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back.

Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years.

Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander bookshop in Kodiak Alaska. Stop into the shop or purchase online. Pick up, delivery and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander bookshop in Kodiak Alaska. Stop into the shop or purchase online. Pick up, delivery and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander bookshop in Kodiak Alaska. Stop into the shop or purchase online. Pick up, delivery and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander bookshop in Kodiak Alaska. Stop into the shop or purchase online. Pick up, delivery and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.

In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.

As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities.

In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.

Praise for Stamped from the Beginning:

"We often describe a wonderful book as 'mind-blowing' or 'life-changing' but I've found this rarely to actually be the case. I found both descriptions accurate for Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning... I will never look at racial discrimination again after reading this marvellous, ambitious, and clear-sighted book." - George Saunders, Financial Times, Best Books of 2017

"Ambitious, well-researched and worth the time of anyone who wants to understand racism." - Seattle Times

"A deep (and often disturbing) chronicling of how anti-black thinking has entrenched itself in the fabric of American society." - The Atlantic

- Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction
- A New York Times Bestseller
- A Washington Post Bestseller
- Finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
- Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Boston Globe, - Washington Post, Chicago Review of Books, The Root, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Entropy

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...

Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?

Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many works—journalism, books, plays and novels—devoted to Anne’s story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two years—and who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.

With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents—some never before seen—and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utilizing methods developed by the FBI, the Cold Case Team painstakingly pieced together the months leading to the infamous arrest—and came to a shocking conclusion. 

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation is the riveting story of their mission. Rosemary Sullivan introduces us to the investigators, explains the behavior of both the captives and their captors and profiles a group of suspects. All the while, she vividly brings to life wartime Amsterdam: a place where no matter how wealthy, educated, or careful you were, you never knew whom you could trust.