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Percivall Pott (1713-88) was a leading surgeon in eighteenth-century Britain. This work mines the...
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After the triumph of his intellectual biography, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now...
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 at the age of seventy-four, Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa has...
Music Behind Barbed Wire: A Diary of Summer 1940
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The Austrian composer Hans Gal (1890-1987) was one of many Jewish refugees who fled to Britain from...
Chief Marketing Officers at Work: 2016
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Herzl: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
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The first biography in more than a generation of the father of modern political Zionism and in...
The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality
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The Antagonist Principle is a critical examination of the works and sometimes controversial public...
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Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a...
Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace
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As Alan Palmer himself writes in his preface, 'Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of...
The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period
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The May Fourth Movement launched an era of turmoil and transformation in China, as Western ideas and...