John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
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This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his...
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...
Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe
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Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander,...
Lipman Bers, a Life in Mathematics
Linda Keen, Irwin Kra and Rubi E. Rodriguez
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The book is part biography and part collection of mathematical essays that gives the reader a...
Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement
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Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement....
Monte Hellman: His Life and Films
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In 1970, an LA Times headline called Monte Hellman "Hollywood's Best Kept Secret." More than thirty...
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
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Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery...
Nature's Oracle: The Life and Work of W.D. Hamilton
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W.D.Hamilton (1936-2000) was responsible for a revolution in thinking about evolutionary biology - a...
Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight
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To date, everything written about Armstong's life and flights has been written from the outside...
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan
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Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York. He became Dylan's friend,...