The Golden Age
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The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery,...
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Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
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Just a few years ago, Greece appeared to be a politically secure nation with a healthy economy....
Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis
Alan Crawford and Tony Czuczka
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Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014...
Diana Vreeland: the Modern Woman: The Bazaar Years, 1936-1962
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The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor...
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir
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Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools...
More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women's Health Movement
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In 1948, the Constitution of the World Health Organization declared, "Health is a state of complete...
The Hair of Harold Roux
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In 1975 the National Book Award Fiction Prize was awarded to two writers: Robert Stone and Thomas...
Salinger
David Shields and Shane Salerno
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Based on eight years of exhaustive research and exclusive interviews with more than 200 people-and...
Bombing Hitler: The Story of the Man Who Almost Assassinated the Fuhrer
Hellmut G. Haasis and William Odom
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Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a...
German Sports, Doping, and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement
Michael Kruger, Stefan Nielsen and Christian Becker
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In the Cold War era, sport was not just a symbol of the power and strength of a nation-state, but of...