The King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Peter Lewis and Asfa-Wossen Asserate
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Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. A descendant...
Marcel Proust
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Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) spent fourteen years creating A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search...
Heath Robinson: How to Make a Garden Grow
W. Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne
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Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the...
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey Through Human History
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Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of...
Charleston Saved 1979-1989
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Charleston Saved 1979-1989 tells the remarkable story of how the home of key members of the...
Karl Hagedorn (1889-1969)
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Originating from Berlin Hagedorn moved to Manchester in 1905 to train in textile production. Having...
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948
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"Memoirs of a Life in Punjab" is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry...
The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty
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The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German...
Algerian Chronicles
Albert Camus, Alice Kaplan and Arthur Goldhammer
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More than fifty years after Algerian independence, Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles appears here in...