The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most...
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The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir
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Born to a Jewish family in Paris, 1925, Lanzmann's first encounter with radicalism was as part of...
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The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure...
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The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
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The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American...
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The Long Slide
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Thirty years ago, Tucker Carlson got his first job out of college fact checking for a quarterly...
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Daphne du Maurier's correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a...
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Friedrichstrasse 19
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Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the...
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Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum: A Brief History
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Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in...
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative...
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National Identity in Contemporary Australian Opera: Myths Reconsidered
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Opera has been performed in Australia for more than two hundred years, yet none of the operas...