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A riveting account of ancient Rome's imperial bodyguard, the select band of soldiers who wielded the...
The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies
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The Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies offers a series of cutting-edge essays on the most important...
Alidad: The Timeless Home
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The work of London-based, Persian-born interior designer Alidad is the realization of a fantasy of...
Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region
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Why has the American South - a place with abundant rainfall - become embroiled in intrastate wars...
Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War
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In this wide-ranging and acclaimed book, Stephen F. Cohen challenges conventional wisdom about the...
Spooky New England: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
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A collection of 40 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New Jersey ghosts, mysterious...
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence,...