The House in France: A Memoir
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In 2009, six years after her mother's death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence...
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought...
Jim Shooter: Conversations
Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman and Dominick Grace
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As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1952) remains among the...
Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: The World War I Memoir of Margaret Hall
Margaret Hall and Margaret R. Higonnet
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In August 1918 a Massachusetts-born woman named Margaret Hall boarded a transport ship in New York...
Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later,...
Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression
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The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930, which raised U.S. duties on hundreds of imported goods to record...
Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
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Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region...
Hog's Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA
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It just didn t sit right. Not with his friends, not with his coworkers, not with his hunting and...
A Club of Their Own: Jewish Humorists and the Contemporary World
Eli Lederhendler and Gabriel N. Finder
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Volume XXIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes its title from a joke by Groucho Marx: "I don't...
There Your Heart Lies
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From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help...
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