The Sowreys: A Unique and Remarkable Record of One Family's Sixty-five Years of Distinguished Service
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A fascinating look into the extraordinary history of the Sowrey family; an RAF dynasty whose service...
Rebranding Islam: Piety, Prosperity, and a Self-Help Guru
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Kyai Haji Abdullah Gymnastiar, known affectionately by Indonesians as "Aa Gym" (elder brother Gym),...
The Backwash of War: Inspired the BBC Dramatization 'the Crimson Field'
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'War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be...
The Great War as I Saw it
Frederick George Scott and Mark G. McGowan
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A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George...
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and Her World (1807-1873)
Marina Soroka and Charles A. Ruud
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The Russian Great Reforms of the 1860s were the last major modernizing effort by the Romanov...
Bitter Almonds
Maria Grammatico and Mary Taylor-Simeti
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Bitter Almonds is a remarkable memoir, a tribute to Sicilian food and culture, and the record of an...
Enough is Plenty: The Year on the Dingle Peninsula
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Foreword by Alice Taylor.An emigrant to England in the 1970s, Felicity Hayes-McCoy knew she'd return...
Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe
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Europe is ready to explode. Where will the explosion take place and what will the damage be? This...
Freshwater Passages: The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
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Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield...
Ladies in the Laboratory IV: Imperial Russia's Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research: IV
Mary R.S. Creese and Thomas M. Creese
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The first volume of Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work...