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On December 10, 2010, on stage in Oslo City Hall, an empty chair sat before more than one thousand...
Sudan Days
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Sudan Days gives a grass roots picture of British colonial rule in Africa in the second quarter of...
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 Founding Fathers
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The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome...
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents
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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents, Ellen Ullman's cult classic memoir of the...
Edgar Julius Jung, Right-Wing Enemy of the Nazis: A Political Biography
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By the time of his death, Edgar Julius Jung (1894-1934) was well known in Germany and Europe as one...
Enrico Fermi: The Obedient Genius: 2016
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This biography explores the life and career of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also the...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
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After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his...
Fergie Rises: How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made at Aberdeen
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When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season, he was the most successful football...