The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long...
Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office
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Our memory of Sixties New Left radicals often evokes marches in the streets, battles with the...
Revolutionary Lives: Constance and Casimir Markievicz
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Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced...
Sherpa: The Memoir of Ang Tharkay
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Adventurous stories told from a non-Western perspective by one of the most accomplished early...
Camp Life is Paradise for Freddy: A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933-1946
Fred Lanzing, Marjolijn De Jager and William Frederick
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"Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly...
Charlemagne
Peter Lewis and Johannes Fried
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When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in...
Duty
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'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there...
Flaubert
Michel Winock and Nicholas Elliot
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Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great...
Freud: In His Time and Ours
Elisabeth Roudinesco and Catherine Porter
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Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of...
Marcel Mauss: A Biography
Marcel Fournier and Jane Marie Todd
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This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern...