Peterhead: The Inside Story of Scotland's Toughest Prison
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Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling "Barlinnie Story" and other true crime books, now tells...
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
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The riveting story of Conor Grennan's year in Nepal reads like a cross between Into Thin Air and...
Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization
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The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new...
Waiting for Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Imagine a network of extraterrestrials in radio contact with each other across the universe,...
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity....
The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time
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St Ives is unique in the story of modern art in Britain - and perhaps anywhere in the world. No...
The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
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A distinguished expert and advisor to developing nations reveals how we've reduced poverty,...
How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet
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Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their...
The Pursuit of Love
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Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing...
Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America
Daniel Miller, Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder
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The sleek hi-fi console in a well-appointed midcentury American living room might have had a stack...