The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess...
History Crime
Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero
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Nicholas Whittaker's much-loved classic recollects the long sunny days of his childhood when,...
Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century
Isabella Image and Eve Rosenhaft
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This is the first English translation of an important document in the history of the black presence...
Enabling Genius: A Mindset for Success in the 21st Century
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Definition of "genius": someone who has exceptionally intellectual or creative power or other...
The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the...
Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dora C. Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort and Andrew M. Watsky
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An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around...
Great Russian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century
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Short stories by Chekhov, Bulgakov, Gorky and other acclaimed Russian writers of the Twentieth...
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Miscellany
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Poetic miscellanies have been almost entirely neglected in studies of Shakespeare's textual...
Climate Wars: What People Will be Killed for in the 21st Century
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Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the...