The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier: The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot
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William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to...
Frontier Follies
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A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country...
Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays
Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth Maclean
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For a brief period in the late Elizabethan Era an innovative company of players dominated the London...
Perfect Murder: A Century of Unsolved Homicides
Bernard Taylor and Stephen Knight
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From the mysterious death of William Saunders, whose beaten body was discovered in a pond near Penge...
Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW
Peter Cole, David Struthers and Kenyon Zimmer
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The Industrial Workers of the World is a union unlike any other. Founded in 1905 in Chicago, it...
The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare and Catherine Richardson
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William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from...
Why it Does Not Have to be in Focus: Modern Photography Explained
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Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape...
Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from...
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)
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Karate Kid, Daniel Larusso, risks losing it all when he places pride before principle in this...
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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"A deft character study of a president."--The New York Times Book Review "A valuable education on...
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