Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
Marie-Pierre Rey and Susan Emanuel
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Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand...
Coryat's Crudities: Selections
Thomas Coryate and Philip S. Palmer
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The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated...
Violeta Parra: Life and Work
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The Chilean artist Violeta Parra (1917 - 1967) is a cultural icon in Latin America. Parra is best...
Wide Sargasso Sea
Angela Smith, Jean Rhys and Andrea Ashworth
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Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of "Jane Eyre's" 'madwoman in the attic',...
A Cage in Search of a Bird
Teresa Lavender Fagan and Florence Noiville
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Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn't be better a stimulating...
The Girl You Left Behind
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The Girl You Left Behind is a hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo...
The Pursuit of Love
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Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing...
Margaret the First
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'I am as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or...
City of Sin: London and Its Vices
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If Paris is the city of love, then London is the city of lust. For over a thousand years, England's...
Green Landscapes in the European City, 1750-2010
Peter Clark, Marjaana Niemi and Catharina Nolin
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Green space is a fundamental concept for understanding modern and contemporary urban society,...