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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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The Wounded River: The Civil War Letters of John Vance Lauderdale, M.D.
The Wounded River takes the reader back more than 130 years to reveal a marvellous, first-hand account of nineteenth-century warfare.
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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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Comenius: A Critical Re-assessment of His Life and Work
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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 Great Melody
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Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant
This highly literate and engrossing autobiographical account of survival as a wetback or mojado , to use the author's own words, affords the reader an unexpurgated look at the United States, its economy and culture from the...
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Die Geschichte Der Bunten (1948-1988): Die Entwicklung Einer Illustrierten Wochenzeitschrift Mit Einer Chronik Dieser Zeitschriftengattung
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Meunster (Westfalen), 1991).
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Gyorgy Ligeti: Eine Monographie
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Picture Book of Rosa Parks, a (1 Paperback/1 CD)
An excellent introduction to the life of the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, A Picture Book of Rosa Parks covers much more than her crucial role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. Such issues as school...
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Picture Book of Rosa Parks, a (1 Hardcover/1 CD)
An excellent introduction to the life of the woman who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement, A Picture Book of Rosa Parks covers much more than her crucial role in initiating the Montgomery bus boycott. Such issues as school...
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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 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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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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Summer Meditations
In a work written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Havel offers profound reflections upon the nature and practice of politics throughout the world, and extends a stirring call for a moral political system, a responsible...
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William Salesbury
William Salesbury is a seminal figure in the literary history of Wales. This text provides an introduction to the life and work of Salesbury (c.1520-1584), a scholar and translator of the New Testament into Welsh.
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The Smell of Humans
Szep's tone is a meld of stupefaction and irony. Without overtly condemning or succumbing to despair, he describes a series of events of progressively grosser infamy.
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Robert Adam
This is an issue of our annual journal Architectural Heritage.
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Joe Morgan
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
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Edmund Gosse: Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son
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Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
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Praeterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life
This exceptional biography, Praeterita is perhaps the best-loved of all the fruits of Ruskin's many-sided and tormented genius.
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Theatre, Culture and Society: Essays, Addresses and Lectures
A book about Sir Henry Irving
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Spathumanismus in Schlesien: Caspar Dornau (1577-1631). Leben Und Werk
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Walter Hasenclever
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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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Coleridge: The Early Family Letters
This volume of previously unpublished and uncited letters presents a remarkable, often moving, and extraordinary image of the Coleridge family during Samuel Taylor Coleridge's youth, particularly between 1772 and 1793, when the...
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Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays
During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to America's consciousness. He could...
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Chiang Ching-kuo Remembered: The Man and His Political Legacy
This study of Chiang Ching-kuo, the last President of the Republic of China on Taiwan, begins with the author's visit to Taiwan over 30 years ago, and ends at President Chiang's funeral in January 1988. It provides an account of a...
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Madame de Stael - Charles de Villers - Benjamin Constant: . Correspondance.: Etablissement Du Texte, Introduction Et Notes Par Kurt Kloocke Avec Le Concours D'Un Groupe D'Etudiants
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Shanghai Refuge: A Memoir of the World War II Jewish Ghetto
The devastation of the November 1938 pogrom, euphemistically known as 'Crystal Night', introduced a new level of Nazi horror that ended the author's family's happy life. This work describes the daily struggle to survive:...
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Women of Fair Hope
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Contemporary Black Biography: Profiles from the International Black Community
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Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s Forgotten Lady
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Correspondance
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Marynia, Don’t Cry: Memoirs of Three Polish-Canadian Families
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Fighting in the Air: In the Trenches with Television News
The first female television correspondent in Vietnam, US journalist Liz Trotta, traces her career in a male-dominated industry. This work recounts some of her most interesting stories - from Chappaquiddick to the campaign trail of...
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End of the Jihad State, The: The Reign of Hisham Ibn ‘Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads
For a century the new religion of Islam had exploded across the world driven by the passion of the jihad the armed struggle to conquer the world for God until it stretched from Morocco to China. Then the expansion ground to a halt...
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Erinnerungen Und Erfahrungen
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In the Shadow of the Flame
The foremost commentator on contemporary experimental theater turns her focus to her own critical nature, describing three epiphanies in her search for greater self-awareness. Croyden is the author of Lunatics, Lovers & Poets: The...
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Lower than Angels: A Memoir of War and Peace
It's one of the great literary mysteries of all time
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Portrait of Elgar
The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. This study of the composer's life uncovers a man who...
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Ford Madox Ford: And His Relationship to Stephen Crane and Henry James
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An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783
This study of Ahmed Resmi, servant and critic of the state, offers new insights into Ottoman eighteenth-century society, emphasizing the impact of the 1768-74 Russo-Turkish war on an outmoded world-view, and the call for the...
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O'Callaghan: The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel
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