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The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction
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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: these words have long represented the promise of...
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Open Water
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'A tender and touching love story, beautifully told' Observer 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2021 'A...
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales
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The acknowledged Queen of Crime, P. D. James, was a past master of the short story, weaving together...
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The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-century Japan
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Ito
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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the...
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Myself and the World: A Biography of William Faulkner
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William Faulkner (1897-1962) once said of his novels and stories, "I am telling the same story over...
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Articulating Dinosaurs: A Political Anthropology
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In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and...
The Future
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The future is like an unwritten book. It is not something we see in a crystal ball, or can only hope...
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To be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
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What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to...
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The Complete Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll and John Tenniel
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The Complete Alice, including both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass...
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Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture
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This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume,...