The Face of the Buddha
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William...
1915 Diary of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
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S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and...
A Biographical Dictionary of the Twentieth-Century Royal Navy: Volume 1 - Admirals of the Fleet and Admirals
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Despite its recent decline in size and influence, for much of the twentieth century the Royal Navy...
The New Kings of Crude: China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan
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In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown...
The Rotten Heart of Europe: The Dirty War for Europe's Money
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"The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a...
A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has...
Death in the Dordogne: Bruno, Chief of Police 1
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EU inspectors are causing havoc in St Denis and local tempers are running high, but is it really...
Rhetoric, Risk, and Secrecy in the Atomic City
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The Manhattan project's top-secret plutonium plant at Hanford, Washington, produced the plutonium...
Team Chemistry: The History of Drugs and Alcohol in Major League Baseball
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In 2007, the Mitchell Report shocked traditionalists who were appalled that drugs had corrupted the...
King of Thorns
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The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to...
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