The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2: From P.G. Wodehouse to Zadie Smith: II
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'Eclectic, entertaining ...almost all British, if not human, life is here' Boyd Tonkin, Independent...
A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered...
Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith
David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi
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The publication of the fifteen-year correspondence of two of the titans of weird fiction, H. P....
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Metis Pioneers: Marie Rose Delorme Smith and Isabella Clark Hardisty Lougheed
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In Metis Pioneers, Doris Jeanne MacKinnon compares the survival strategies of two Metis women born...
Gerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of Late Victorian and Edwardian England
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Gerald Howard-Smith's life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the...
The Lives of Dillon Ripley: Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution
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A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious,...
Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare
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Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping...
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought...