John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography
In the first full-scale biography of John C. Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more...
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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 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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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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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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Correspondence
This new volume in the acclaimed Northwestern-Newberry Library series includes newly verified and corrected versions of over 300 Melville letters; accounts for 150 lost letters, situated chronologically by existing fragments from...
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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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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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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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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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Something about the Author
One of a series of reference books providing illustrated biographical articles on 100-140 children's authors and artists, ranging from established award winners to new authors and illustrators. Details include: personal life,...
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Robert Adam
This is an issue of our annual journal Architectural Heritage.
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Edmund Gosse: Father and Son - A Study of Two Temperaments
Edmund Gosse: Father and Son
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Grand Coulee: Harnessing a Dream
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Waiting for World’s End: The Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
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Spathumanismus in Schlesien: Caspar Dornau (1577-1631). Leben Und Werk
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Walter Hasenclever
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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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A Drinking Life: A Memoir
Twenty years after his last drink, Peter Hamill looks back on his early life. Growing up during the depression and World War II, he learnt that drinking was an essential part of being a man. Only later did he discover its ability...
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Being Present: Growing Up in Hitler’s Germany
Schumann's intention in writing this memoir is to show young Americans how easy it can be to control and manipulate a whole nation - especially its young people. He analyzes his life in Nazi Germany, explaining why he became a...
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Skin and Bones
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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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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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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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Women of Fair Hope
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Barrett Willoughby: Alaska’s Forgotten Lady
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Correspondance
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Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist
Biography of Harriet Brooks (1876-1933), one of the first Canadian researchers in the field of radioactivity, and her works. It follows her struggle to overcome conventions, to pursue a college education and an academic career.
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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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The End of the Jihad State: The Reign of Hisham Ibn ‘Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads
Demonstrates for the first time that the cause of the Umayyad caliphate's collapse came not just from internal conflict, but from a number of external and concurrent factors that exceeded the caliphate's capacity to respond.
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Quest for the Red Sulphur: The Life of Ibn ‘Arabi
Biography of Ibn 'Arabi (1165-1249), recognized in his lifetime as al-Shaykh al-Akbar, the supreme spiritual Master. This study by Claude Addas is based on a detailed analysis of a whole range of Ibn 'Arabi's own writings as well...
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Erinnerungen Und Erfahrungen
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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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O'Callaghan: The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel
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Claude Debussy: Biographie Critique
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Growing Up Rootless
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Ford Madox Ford: And His Relationship to Stephen Crane and Henry James
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Isak Dinesen and Narrativity
Responding to recent Dinesen scholarship and public exposure in such films as Out of Africa and Babette's Feast, these fourteen original essays discuss and reveal the aesthetic subtlety and philosophical complexity of Dinesen's...
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