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The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London
D. J. Taylor - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Booker Prize-nominated author of Derby Day delivers a sumptuous cultural history as seen through the lives of four enigmatic women.Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia... |
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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
Johanna Luthman - OUP Oxford
Format: Hardcover
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The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to ignore convention... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare... |
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After Freedom: The Rise of the Post-Apartheid Generation in Democratic South Africa
Katherine S Newman - Beacon Press,
Format: Hardcover
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Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict. The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa's first... |
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An Einstein Encyclopedia
Alice Calaprice - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this... |
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Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
John B. Boles - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970. Not since Merrill Petersons Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John... |
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Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Harold Holzer - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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From his earliest days, Lincoln spoke to the public directly through the press. When war broke out and the nation was tearing itself apart, Lincoln authorized the most widespread censorship in the nation's history, closing down papers that were "disloyal" and even jailing... |
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