Chopin's Prophet: The Life of Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann
Gregor Benko and Edward Blickstein
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Vladimir de Pachmann was perhaps history's most notorious pianist. Widely regarded as the greatest...
Kafka: The Early Years
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How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's...
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939
Volker Ullrich and Jefferson S. Chase
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Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The Times...
The Lives and Loves of Laurie Lee
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Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and...
The King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Peter Lewis and Asfa-Wossen Asserate
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Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as he was formidable. A descendant...
Corsets: Historic Patterns and Techniques
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Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this fascinating collection showcases an...
Karl Hagedorn (1889-1969)
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Originating from Berlin Hagedorn moved to Manchester in 1905 to train in textile production. Having...
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948
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"Memoirs of a Life in Punjab" is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry...
The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty
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The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German...
Positive: A Novel
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In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author of Chimera and...