The Most Wanted Man in China
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Fang Lizhi was one of the most prominent scientists of the People's Republic of China; he worked on...
Toward Nationalism's End: An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn
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This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the...
Women in Dark Times: From Rosa Luxemburg to Marilyn Monroe ...
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Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa...
Peake in China: Memoirs of Ernest Cromwell Peake
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Dr Ernest Cromwell Peake was the first medical missionary to arrive in the region of Hankow, inland...
Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan
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From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the...
The Cooked Seed
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In 1994, Anchee Min published Red Azalea, a memoir of growing up during the violent trauma of the...
The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
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When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for...
The Fall of Heaven
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In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities,...
The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma
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Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and...
Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling Across the Rio Grande
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Winner, Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb...