The Age of Innocence (1993)
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Martin Scorsese, one of the great directors of our time, directs OscarĀ®-winner Daniel Day-Lewis...
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
Darra Goldstein, Laura Mason, Michael Krondl and Sidney Mintz
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A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the...
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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I was ten years old when I came across Boadicea, and she became the first woman to make me realise...
Gay Life Stories
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A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time and across the globe whose lives have...
Gender in the Twenty-First Century: The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality
Shannon Davis, Sarah Winslow and David J. Maume
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How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, "not...
Women Spacefarers: Sixty Different Paths to Space: 2017
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This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the...
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture
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The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular...
Anticancer Living: Six Weeks to a New Way of Life
Lorenzo Cohen and Alison Jefferies
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"You have cancer." These are perhaps the most feared three words that will ever come out of a...
How to Age
The School of Life and Anne Karpf
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Society has a deep fear of ageing. Old age is increasingly viewed as a biomedical problem, something...
How to Be Alone
The School of Life and Sara Maitland
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Our fast-paced society does not approve of solitude; being alone is literally anti-social and some...
