The Ottoman Age of Exploration
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In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim "the Grim" conquered Egypt and brought his empire for the first...
The Visitor: Andre Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia
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In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, Andre Palmeiro left Portugal on a...
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern
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A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who...
A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45
Sarah Death and Astrid Lindgren
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'A breathtaking read' - Die Welt One of the twentieth century's greatest children's writers - and...
The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch
Clive Hamilton, Francois Gemenne and Christophe Bonneuil
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The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal;...
The Queue: A Novel
Basma Abdel Aziz and Elisabeth Jaquette
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In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as ‘the...
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Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard
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The first major biography of eighteenth-century writer and socialite Lady Anne Barnard. Born in...
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Why Not Say What Happened?
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Beautiful, intelligent and wealthy, Ivana Lowell seemed to have it all. Part of the Guinness...
The After Wife
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L.A. is no place for widows. This is what forty-four-year-old Hannah Bernal quickly discovers after...
Little Dorrit
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A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over...