The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy
Jean-Noel Liaut and Denise Jacobs
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A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of...
The Popularizing Science
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J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) is widely appreciated as one of the greatest and most influential British...
Pitching in the Promised Land: A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
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It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven,...
Playing with the Boys: The Girl Footballer Who Took on the Boys at Their Own Game...
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Since she was 12 years old, Niamh McKevitt has been the only girl in the whole of England playing...
Running My Life - The Autobiography
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One second in time may separate the great athlete from the merely good. Seb Coe has made every...
Russia's Uncommon Prophet: Father Aleksandr Men and His Times
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This lucidly written biography of Aleksandr Men examines the familial and social context from which...
Task Force Patriot and the End of Combat Operations in Iraq
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Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace. The country teetered on the...
The Alley of Love and Yellow Jasmines
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Enchanted by the Hollywood movies she watched while growing up in affluent Tehran in the 1950s and...
The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King's Secret Agent
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One morning in May 1671, Colonel Thomas Blood daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the...
The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
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The Fires Beneath is a powerful and affecting story of love and loss. Monica Wilson, nee Hunter, was...