Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became...
Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
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They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America Between the...
The Meadow: Kashmir 1995 - Where the Terror Began
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark
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The Kashmir Kidnapping that changed the face of modern terrorism. In July 1995, ten Western...
Arendt and America
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German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and...
The Fight
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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism, Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story...
Vienna: A Cultural and Literary History
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From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's...
The Iron Giant (1999)
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The film takes place in October of 1957, when America had plenty to be worried about. Rock ’n’...
Immune: How Your Body Defends and Protects You
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The human body is like an exceedingly well-fortified castle, defended by billions of soldiers - some...
A Century of Miracles: Christians, Pagans, Jews, and the Supernatural, 312-410
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The fourth century of our common era began and ended with a miracle. Traditionally, in the year 312,...
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman
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'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent'...
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