Pecan: America's Native Nut Tree
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Written in a manner suitable for a popular audience and including color photographs and recipes for...
The Philosophy of Neo-noir
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Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed...
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962
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David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour...
A Very Private Celebrity: The Nine Lives of John Freeman
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John Freeman was one of Britain's most extraordinary public figures for over half a century; an...
Germany: Beyond the Enchanted Forest: A Literary Anthology
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'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling...
William Faulkner in Hollywood: Screenwriting for the Studios
R. Barton Palmer, Stefan Solomon and Matthew Bernstein
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During more than two decades (1932-1954), William Faulkner worked on approximately fifty screenplays...
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers and Kasia Boddy
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Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a powerful exploration of alienation and...
Grammar School Boy: A Memoir of Personal and Social Development
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This memoir covers the first twenty years of the life of the author, a retired university professor,...
Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay
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A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San...
The Island of Sea Women
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A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird...