Thomas Mann - Felix Bertaux: Correspondence 1923-1948
Thomas Mann's correspondence with French Germanist Felix Bertaux between 1923 and 1948 deals with the writer's business of foreign translations, contracts, criticism, publicity and lecture tours. It also reflects the development...
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Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century
An exploration of the personalities and perspectives of the men and women who are part of the adult heterosexual pornography industry. Their stories, as told to the author, reveal the inner workings of the industry and the...
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Theodora: Portrait in a Byzantine Landscape
A biography of the Byzantine courtesan who rose from the gutter to the throne of an Empire.
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An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections
The man revealed in these pages seems to embody so much of what Americans claim to admire - self-reliance, honesty, humor, modesty, intelligence - the stuff of heroes. - The New York Times Book Review
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All But My Life: A Memoir
Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three-year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S....
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The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
Tara Singh Bains is one of those rare people who sees the hand of God in every facet of his life. A man of strong convictions, he has consistently refused to compromise his beliefs. The Four Quarters of the Night is as much the...
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More Letters from the American Farmer: An Edition of the Essays in English Left Unpublished by Crevecoeur
A critical edition of essays that J. Hector St John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English, but did not include in Letters From an American Farmer . It is based on an examination of all available relevant textual sources,...
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Comenius: A Critical Re-assessment of His Life and Work
This is a study of the life and writings of the Czech educator, Jan Amos Komensky, better known to the world as 'Comenius'. The work has been extensively researched in Eastern Europe and has benefited significantly from the...
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The Salmon P.Chase Papers v. 2; Correspondence, 1823-57
Salmon P. Chase first gained prominence during the 1840s and 50s as a leader in the anti-slavery movement and as a founder of the Liberty, Free-Soil and Republican parties, before becoming a Senator. This book sets out his...
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The Light Within
Formerly published as Shadow of Death, this explosive true story captures all the drama of war, and a soldier's incredible encounter with the afterlife. Takes the reader from the ravaged jungles of Vietnam to the destruction of...
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Gyorgy Ligeti: Eine Monographie: (German)
A group of resourceful kids start solution-seekers.com, a website where cybervisitors can get answers to questions that trouble them. But when one questioner asks the true meaning of Christmas, the kids seek to unravel the...
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The Great Melody
Statesman, political thinker, orator, and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the most brilliant figures of the eighteenth century. This unorthodox biography focuses on Burke's thoughts, responses, and actions to the great...
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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1910 - 1926 (Paper Only)
This volume of Rilke's letters covers the years from the completion of The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge to Rilke's death in December 1926, nearly five years after he had written the Duino Elegies and the Sonnets to Orpheus,...
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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1892-1910 (Paper Only)
This representative selection from Rilke's large and extraordinary correspondence provides a kind of spiritual autobiography of the poet.
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A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
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A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
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Prince Charming Goes West: The Story of the E.P. Ranch
This is the fascinating story of the E.P. Ranch, owned for 43 years by His Royal Highness, Edward, Prince of Wales. The ranch served as a bond between him and the people of Canada, and its development was closely bound up with the...
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Stripped Naked
In Stripped Naked , Stratford tells, with humor, heart, and honesty, how she and her therapists met each of her multiple personalities. The book addresses the key issues of recognizing abuse and alternative selves and describes...
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The Presidency of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States between 1829 and 1837. This text presents a review of the major events of Andrew Jackson's presidency.
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Forged Under the Sun/Forjada Bajo el Sol: Life of Maria Elena Lucas
The compelling oral history of a remarkable woman's life and political struggle
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Torn by Light: Selected Poems
This is the first collection of Joanne de Longchamps's poetry and collages to span her entire writing and artistic career.
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The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin, 1910-1940
Benjamin's correspondence reveals the evolution of some of his most important ideas. Published here in English, these letters offer an intimate picture of Benjamin himself and the times in which he lived. They also provide an...
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History Continues
In this autobiography, Duby recalls his life's influences, including the historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales School and the College de France. He also offers insights into methods of gathering and using archival...
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Anna Akhmatova & Her Circle
This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace, and courage, through long years of heartbreak and hunger.
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The Verdi-Boito Correspondence
This collection features 301 letters between Giuseppe Verdi and his last most gifted librettist, Arrigo Boito. This edition contains a new introduction by Marcello Conati, improvements and updatings to the original edition and an...
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Der Kreuzzug Kaiser Heinrichs VI.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universiteat Teubingen, 1988.
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Sallon’s War
A magnificent collection of caricatures by the oldest and most distinguished practising cartoonist in Britain. The bulk of them date from his greatest period when he drew the major figures of World War II, from the goodies like...
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These...
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Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
From Connecticut, where Wilford Woodruff was born in 1807, to San Francisco, where he was befriended by the cosmopolitan Bohemian Club before dying in 1898, Woodruff s life was unpredictable. The same man who consulted scientific...
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Galileo a Life
A suspenseful narrative and spiritive rendition of the life of Galileo.
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Guest of an Ally: Veterans of the First World War
Shot down near Dresden, the author became a guest of the Russians.
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Lottie Deno: Gambling Queen of Hearts
The true story of the woman who has been immortalised in frontier novels and more recently in television and film (as Miss Kitty in Gunsmoke and Laura Denbo in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral). Santa Fe writer Cynthia Rose presents...
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Pres: Story Of Lester
The critic Norman Granz called tenor saxophonist Lester Young the greatest musician I have heard on the instrument. Douglas Ramsey speaks of Young as the gentle bedeviled genius whose vision of beauty found expression even...
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Then the Wind Changed in Africa: Nigerian Letters of Robert Hepburn Wright
Robert Hepburn Wright began his career in the British Colonial Administrative Service in 1936 when he joined the Northern Nigerian Service. His letters provide a unique record of the period leading up to the end of empire and...
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Invasion Kuwait: An English Woman’s Tale
In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author's experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab...
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An African Experience: An Education Officer in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia)
An illuminating account of the life of an education officer in Northern Rhodesia during the period leading up to Zambian independence. T.E. Dorman was brought up in New Zealand and brings a distinct viewpoint on the colonial...
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Meeting Freud’s Family
In the 1960s, Roazen interviewed more than 70 people who had known Freud personally, ranging from relatives to patients. The notes Roazen took during these interviews provide the basis for this book. Part personal reminiscence,...
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Armenians of Jerusalem: Memories of Life in Palestine
For centuries Jerusalem had a sizeable Armenian community, which retained its religious and social traditions. John Rose's family was part of that community, and he paints a vivid picture of their life, describing his early life...
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The Myth of the Reine Margot: Toward the Elimination of a Legend
The Divorce Satyrique is an anonymous biographical sketch of Marguerite de Valois. Although a proclaimed satire, the document was accepted as historical fact and it single-handedly spawned the myth of the Reine Margot. Despite her...
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Peter Sterry: Select Writings
This book presents letters, treatises and poems from the manuscripts of Peter Sterry (1613-1672) at Emmanuel College Library, Cambridge. It is the first edition that includes complete writings by the chaplain of Oliver Cromwell,...
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From the Kingdom of Memory
One of the great writers of our generation (The New Republic) weaves together memories of his life before the Holocaust and his great struggle to find meaning afterwards. Included are Wiesel's landmark speeches, among them his...
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Identity and Community: Reflections on English, Yiddish and French Literature in Canada
In this book, the author, a Jewish Canadian from Montreal who has been an American academic for most of his career, re-examines his cultural roots and connections. The problem of Canada and Canadian identity lies at the heart of...
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Educational Reform At The State Level: The Politics And Problems Of implementation
Sets out to describe the personal experiences of a state worker in Missouri as she attempted to implement educational reform programmes in the late 1980's. This was a critical time in America as other states were mandating new...
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Upward Panic: The Autobiography of Eva Palmer-Sikelianos
A biography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical Greece, the theatre and choral...
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Naguib Mahfouz: The Pursuit of Meaning
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included is a full biography and systematic analysis of the writer's works.
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Camp David Diaries Volume V - Lady Bird Johnson 1963-1969
This is a novel about women, politics, secrets, and the keeping of a diary atCamp David by Lady Bird Johnson.
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An Armenian Boyhood
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