A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
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What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a...
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
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This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations...
The Politics of Innovation: Why Some Countries are Better Than Others at Science and Technology
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Why are some countries better than others at science and technology (S&T)? Written in an...
Day Dreams and Movie Screens
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Eleven-year-old Lena Daniels' summer of Hollywood starlets and movie filming alongside her favorite...
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
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From the author of Straw Dogs, John Gray's Gray's Anatomy is a pugnacious and brilliantly readable...
Moby-Dick: or, the Whale: Or, the Whale
Herman Melville, Tom Quirk and Andrew Delbanco
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The original 'Great American Novel', Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is a masterful study of obsession....
The Essex Serpent
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Essex Serpent Strange News Out of Essex...'One of the most memorable historical novels of...
Motherland: A Novel
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit meets Goodbye Lenin. 'I hadn't expected the Berlin Wall to be clean...
Dubliners
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James Joyce's Dubliners is an enthralling collection of modernist short stories which create a vivid...
Getting to Happy
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In "Waiting to Exhale", Terry McMillan chronicled the lives and love affairs of women in their...