Ruth's Journey
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Set against the backdrop of the American South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, this...
Lingua Franca
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'William Thacker is a name you will hear a lot more often.' -- Matt Haig, author 'Envisage Brian...
Dissolution
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Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. J. Sansom,...
Fathers and Children
Ivan Turgenev and Michael R. Katz
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The English rendition of the title of this novel has been problematic since the book's publication...
Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I
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Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published...
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
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For too long our lives have been dominated by the 'under one roof' Industrial Revolution model of...
Battle of the Sexes (2016)
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In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women’s movement, the 1973 tennis match...
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Gustave Flaubert
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Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists, whose work...
Scotland's Secret History: The Illicit Distilling and Smuggling of Whisky
Charles MacLean and Daniel MacCannell
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Illicit distilling in Scotland was seen as a 'right of man' at the end of the 17th century. Attempts...
Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century
Goncalo Santos and Stevan Harrell
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Each successive wave of revolution to hit modern Chinapolitical, cultural, and economichas radically...
