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“jasper wilson”

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  • The Paper Corridor

    Chiune Sugihara, Kaunas, and the Fragile Route Out of Europe

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    In 1940, as Europe was closing around them, thousands of Jewish refugees stood outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, holding papers, rumors, and fading hope.Inside the consulate, Chiune Sugihara faced a choice no rulebook could solve. Tokyo had requirements. The refugees did not meet them. The Soviet occupation was tightening. Germany waited to the west. Consulates were closing, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palmiro Togliatti

    The communist future the West nearly chose

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    Palmiro Togliatti was one of the most influential political figures in postwar Europe, yet outside Italy his story remains largely unknown. In this sweeping political biography, Jasper Wilson traces the life of the man who transformed the Italian Communist Party into the largest communist movement in Western Europe and helped shape an alternate democratic future the continent nearly chose. Moving ... Read more

    $6.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lina Shtern

    The scientist Stalin could not break

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    Lina Shtern helped define one of the most important ideas in modern neuroscience: the blood-brain barrier.But her life was also a story of other barriers — borders, languages, exile, Jewish persecution, Soviet ideology, prison walls, and the brutal line between truth and power.Born in the Russian Empire and educated in Geneva, Shtern became the University of Geneva’s first woman professor before ... Read more

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  • Five Missiles at Midnight

    Inside the Soviet bunker where one man faced a nuclear illusion

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    Just after midnight on September 26, 1983, inside a sealed Soviet bunker south of Moscow, a warning appeared on a screen. The system claimed the United States had launched a nuclear strike. One missile became five. Ground radar could not yet confirm the attack, the command chain was already designed to move fast, and Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov had only minutes to decide whether the ... Read more

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  • Ho Feng-Shan

    The Chinese consul who stamped a door out of Nazi Vienna

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    In Nazi Vienna, a visa could mean the difference between escape and imprisonment.After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Jewish families found themselves trapped inside a system designed to persecute them while demanding proof that they had somewhere else to go. Countries around the world were closing their borders. Passports, permits, signatures, and stamps had become matters of life and death.At ... Read more

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  • The New York Kidnapping Club

    David Ruggles and the Black Abolitionist War Against Slave Catchers

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    David Ruggles did not simply help fugitives escape slavery. He fought an urban war against the men who hunted them.In The New York Kidnapping Club, Jasper Wilson uncovers the tense and dangerous world of antebellum New York, where freedom was fragile, slave catchers worked openly, and Black life could be turned into profit through warrants, corrupt courts, police cooperation, and speed. At the ... Read more

    $6.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Poison That Saved the City

    John L. Leal and the chlorine revolution that made modern water safe

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    John L. Leal is almost unknown, but one of the most important public-health revolutions in American life runs through his decision.In 1908, Jersey City’s water supply was on trial. The city had demanded water that was “pure and wholesome,” but the new Boonton Reservoir still carried the invisible threat of typhoid and other waterborne disease. A court ordered the water company to fix the problem ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Royal Bloodbath

    The assassination that shattered Portugal’s monarchy and opened the road to revolution

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    On a February afternoon in 1908, King Carlos I of Portugal and Crown Prince Luís Filipe crossed Lisbon’s great ceremonial square in an open carriage before a watching crowd. Within moments, rifle shots shattered the procession. The king was dead, the heir mortally wounded, and Europe’s oldest monarchy suddenly exposed as fragile, vulnerable, and politically doomed.In The Royal Bloodbath, Jasper ... Read more

    $6.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Labyrinth of Signs

    Alice Kober and the Lost Code That Opened Ancient Greece

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    Alice Kober did not decipher Linear B. But she made decipherment possible.For decades, the mysterious Bronze Age script found on clay tablets from Knossos, Pylos, and other Mycenaean sites resisted every attempt to read it. There was no Rosetta Stone, no bilingual inscription, no known language, and no easy key. Scholars guessed. Alice Kober refused to.Working from Brooklyn with limited money, a ... Read more

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  • Lee de Forest

    The tube, the signal, and the birth of the electronic age

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    Lee de Forest did not invent the electronic age alone, but his Audion helped make it possible.In Lee de Forest, Jasper Wilson tells the dramatic and morally complicated story of the inventor whose fragile three element vacuum tube helped transform weak electrical signals into the foundation of modern electronics. Before silicon, before transistors, before chips made electronics invisible, the ... Read more

    $6.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Strangest Race in Olympic History

    The 1904 St. Louis marathon and the day endurance became absurd

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    A marathon so chaotic it nearly destroyed the Olympic marathon itself.On August 30, 1904, thirty-two runners lined up in St. Louis for what was supposed to be an Olympic test of endurance. What followed was one of the strangest, most dangerous, and most darkly absurd races in sports history.The course was dusty, hilly, brutally hot, and barely controlled. Water was almost nonexistent—not simply by ... Read more

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  • The Dancing Plague

    Strasbourg 1518 and the strange terror of a city that could not stop moving

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    In the summer of 1518 a woman stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. She was not celebrating. She was not performing. She could not stop. Soon others joined her and the city found itself facing one of the strangest crises in European history, a dancing epidemic that turned fear, faith, illness, hunger, and public panic into motion.The Dancing Plague reconstructs Strasbourg’s ... Read more

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