Marshal Vauban and the Defence of Louis XIV's France
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Marshal Vauban was one of the greatest military engineers of all time. His complex, highly...
Shrewdunnit: The Nature Files
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Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and communicating...
The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Placido Domingo, Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud
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Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history...
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination
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'Delightfully good ...an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ...full of love for...
Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War
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Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring...
The Gospel of Trees: A Memoir
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In this compelling, beautiful memoir, award-winning writer Apricot Irving recounts her childhood as...
Tropical Houses
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Indonesia fosters many noteworthy architects who have amassed a remarkable collection of works....
In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlogel and Gerrit Jackson
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History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular...
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls "the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected" of...