Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
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Tsenhor was born about 550 bce in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later,...
Merchants and Explorers: Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot, and Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500-1560
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In the early sixteenth century, a young English sugar trader spent a night at what is now the port...
Visions of Loveliness: Great Flower Breeders of the Past
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Gardeners of today take for granted the many varieties of geraniums, narcissi, marigolds, roses, and...
There Your Heart Lies
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From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help...
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Ice Cream
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This mouth-watering book is brimming with delicious ice cream concoctions and iced wonders from the...
Harry Potter: Page to Screen
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From the acquisition of the film rights to the casting of Harry, Ron, and Hermione and the assembly...
Modernity Britain: Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62: Book 2
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David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour...
Titian: The Last Days
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Towards the end of his life Titian didn't finish his paintings. The 87 year-old artist kept them in...
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...
The Privileges of Wealth: Rising Inequality and the Growing Racial Divide
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The American Dream is under assault. This threat results not from a lack of means, but from an...