Tolstoy's Diaries: Volume 1: 1847-1894
Rosamund Bartlett, R.F. Christian and Leo Tolstoy
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"An important and long-overdue contribution to our knowledge of Tolstoy." (D. M. Thomas, Sunday...
Winchester Lever-Action Rifles
Martin Pegler, Mark Stacey and Alan Gilliland
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Winchester lever-action repeating rifles are an integral part of the folklore of the American West....
A Brief History of Economic Thought
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The evolution of economic thought can be traced back from its beginnings in classical antiquity up...
Plato: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
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Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A...
Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade
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Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the...
Stumps & Runs & Rock 'n Roll: Sixty Years Beyond a Boundary
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Stumps & Runs & Rock 'n' Roll is Tim Quelch's sixty-year account of growing up and growing older...
Suetonius: The Flavian Emperors
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Nero's suicide in AD 68 was followed by a disastrous civil war that left the empire in a parlous...
The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia
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Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his...
Crime and Criminals of Victorian England
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Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal - we all...
Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a reporter, literary critic, editor, author - and a famous American...