What Lot's Wife Saw
Ioanna Bourazopoulou and Yiannis Panas
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It's been twenty-five years since the Overflow flooded Southern Europe, drowning Rome, Vienna and...
Galley Slave: The Autobiography of a Protestant Condemned to the French Galleys: v. 1: Seafarers' Voices
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This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, 'a Protestant condemned...
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
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In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a wrecking ball: something...
Politics economics finance
In the Company of the Courtesan
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My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the...
The Skin
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“It is a shameful thing to win a war.” The reliably unorthodox Curzio Malaparte’s own service...
The Living Years
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"Now Michael, you're the son of a naval officer, you must behave like a naval officer at all...
The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran
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What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the 'Axis of Evil', with your family in tow? - asks...
Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life in the Italian Resistance
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Ada Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10...
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Fuhrer
Hellmut G. Haasis and William Odom
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Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a...
Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
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Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of The Year Award A superb book; hilarious, sad, moving and...