One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits
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One Breath is a gripping and powerful exploration of the strange and fascinating sport of...
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America
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A provocative, and timely, solution for ridding America of the traces of Jim Crow policies to create...
Girl Least Likely to: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street
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Liz Jones is Fashion Editor of the Daily Mail, and a columnist for the Mail on Sunday. She is the...
Graeme Clark: The Man Who Invented the Bionic Ear
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As a young man, Graeme Clark read about Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and other great scientists,...
Guarding Diana: Protecting the Princess Around the World
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Wherever she went, in public or in private, she was shadowed by her Scotland Yard personal...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches: Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
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The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women's lives in the...
Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence - The Right to Heal; Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India
Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar and Mallika Kaur
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Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational...
Time Slips: Queer Temporalities, Contemporary Performance, and the Hole of History
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This bold book investigates how performance can transform the way people perceive trauma and memory,...
Women and Leadership in Islamic Law: A Critical Analysis of Classical Legal Texts
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Islamic law has traditionally prohibited women from being prayer leaders and heads of state. A small...
Bokashi Composting: Scraps to Soil in Weeks
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Bokashi is Japanese for "fermented organic matter." Bokashi composting is a safe, quick, and...