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The Age of Caesar: Five Roman Lives
Plutarch. · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 393
Format: Print book
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A brilliant new translation of five of history's greatest lives from Plutarch, the inventor of biography.Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt... |
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Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman
ITAMAR RABINOVICH · Yale University Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually... |
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Folk Masters: A Portrait of America
Tom Pich · Indiana University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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Discover one hundred of the greatest folk artists practicing in the United States in Folk Masters: A Portrait of America. Over the past 25 years, photographer Tom Pich has traveled the country to the homes and studios of recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage... |
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
T Fleischmann · Coffee House Press
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
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How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzáles-Torres's artworks -- piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles -- as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation,... |
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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
Annejet van der Zijl · AmazonCrossing
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
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The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became one of the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small... |
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Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time
MICHAEL PALIN · Greystone Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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"Beyond terrific. I didn't want it to end." - Bill BrysonDriven by a passion for travel and history and a love of ships and the sea, former Monty Python stalwart and beloved television globe-trotter Michael Palin explores the world of HMS Erebus, last seen on an ill-fated voyage... |
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Quicksand: What It Means to Be a Human Being
Henning Mankell · Vintage
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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In January 2014 I was informed that I had cancer. However, Quicksand is not a book about death and destruction, but about what it means to be human. I have undertaken a journey from my childhood to the man I am today, writing about the key events in my life, and about the people who have... |
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In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
Lindsey Hilsum · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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The devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012When Marie Colvin was killed by an IED in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost one of its most fearless, accomplished, and iconoclastic war correspondents,... |
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The Monk's Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966
ROBERT HUDSON · Eerdmans
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them togetherIn 1965 Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger... |
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Modern Women: 52 Pioneers
Kira Cochrane · Frances Lincoln Pub Ltd
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Modern Women is a celebration of some of the influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender... |
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The 1975: Love, Sex & Chocolate
David Nolan · Lesser Gods
Pages: 241
Format: Paperback
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Led by exciting, outspoken singer Matthew Healy, The 1975 have taken the music world by storm with their 1980s-inspired funk-pop-rock.Their 2016 album debuted at #1 in the United States, Canada, and England. Music journalist David Nolan interviews key players in The 1975's story, including... |
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i am through you so i
David Steindl-Rast · Paulist Press
Pages: 222
Format: Paperback
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Brother David tells his incomparably rich life story spanning nine decades. Brother David Steindl-Rast, born 1926 in Vienna, studied psychology, art, and anthropology. In 1952, he emigrated to the US, joined a Benedictine monastery, and practiced Zen. He is co-founder of the Center for Spiritual... |
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
Erin Lee Carr · Ballantine Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of addiction and sobriety, work and family. Dad: What will set you apart is not talent but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness... |
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Sisters of Secrets: The Story of Sisters Leading Up to the Turpin Case Arrest
Elizabeth Flores · Creative Life Publishing & Learning Institute
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
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The Secrets Are OutThe life story of a Christ-following girl had been written. It was sent to the publisher just a week before the horrific event on January 15, 2018. Her story of surviving abuse, to holding fast to her faith, to be an overcomer was now forever changed. Her older sister,... |
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