
Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism
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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York...

Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution That Changed the World
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The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world. For fans of Michael...

Patterns in Circulation: Cloth, Gender, and Materiality in West Africa
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In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics...

Iffat Al Thunayan: An Arabian Queen
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Iffat Al Thunayan, spouse of the late King Faysal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (r. 19641975), was a pillar...

Women and Images of Men in Cinema: Gender Construction in la Belle et la Bete by Jean Cocteau
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Women and men in cinema are imaginary constructs created by filmmakers and their audiences. The...

Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction
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In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that...

The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Author Donald Symonds examines the differences between men and women in sexual behavior and...

Race and Work
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This book provides a reasoned, unflinching analysis of how race and paid work are linked in U.S....

The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and...

An Unrestored Woman: And Other Stories
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In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the...