The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the...
The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle
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Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made...
The Holocaust: A New History
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Sunday Times top 10 bestseller 'Groundbreaking ...You might have thought that we know everything...
The New Boys of Summer: Baseball's Radical Transformation in the Late Sixties
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The 1960s were among the most compelling years in the history of the United States, from the...
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics...
The RAF Air Sea Rescue Service 1918-1986
Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell
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Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support...
The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
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In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as...
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
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From New York Times bestselling author H. W. Brands, a masterful biography of the Civil War general...
On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry
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What is photography? Is it primarily a source of knowledge about the world or an art? Many have said...
Owls
David Tipling and Jari Peltomaki
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Owls command attention, the quintessential emblem of darkness, they evoke strong cultural responses,...