
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
Adriana Hunter, Frank Wynne and Claude Lanzmann
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Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of...

Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
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This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the...

Vidal
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Vidal Sassoon's extraordinary life has taken him from an impoverished East End childhood to global...

Women in Dark Times: From Rosa Luxemburg to Marilyn Monroe ...
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Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa...

Stepan Bandera -- The Life & Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide & Cult
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"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly...

Mathematician for All Seasons: Recollections and Notes, (1887-1945): 2015: Volume 1
Hugo Steinhaus, Robert G. Burns, Aleksander Weron and Irena Szymaniec
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This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972), noted Polish...

Meeting Evil with Mercy: An Anglican Priest's Bold Answer to Atrocity - Reflections Upon the Ministry of Martin Israel
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Meeting Evil with Mercy tells the absorbing story of Martin Israel, a Jewish doctor turned Christian...

No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel
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Shimon Peres, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and one of the towering figures of the twentieth...
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
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To have been alive during the last sixty years is to have lived with the music of Paul Simon. The...

A Cry Instead of Justice: The Bible and Cultures of Violence in Psychological Perspective
Andrew D. Kille and Dereck Daschke
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" Within a book widely touted as the path to peace, violence has incongruously been central to the...