
Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies
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Truman Capote once remarked, "My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the...

Silent Sparks: The Wondrous World of Fireflies
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For centuries, the beauty of fireflies has evoked wonder and delight. Yet for most of us, fireflies...

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...
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
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Most Americans revere their Constitution yet know relatively little about its origins. Indeed, until...

Cuba Cars: Classic Cars of the Caribbean
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Cuba is worth a visit. Or, as the authors of this book discovered, several. The average package...
Portraits of Resilience
Daniel Jackson and David A. Karp
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More than 15 million American adults grapple with depression in a given year. Anxiety disorders...

7 Leadership Lessons of D-Day: Lessons from the Longest Day-June 6, 1944
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The odds were against the Allies on June 6, 1944. The task ahead of the paratroopers who jumped over...

Getting to Happy
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In "Waiting to Exhale", Terry McMillan chronicled the lives and love affairs of women in their...

Antigay Bias in Role-Model Occupations
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From the first game of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs on April 22, 1876, tens of...

Instruments of Battle: The Fighting Drummers and Buglers of the British Army from the Late 17th Century to the Present Day
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Instruments of Battle examines in detail the development and role of the British Army's fighting...