The Times Great Women's Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries
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This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all,...
W. B. Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939
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The acclaimed first volume of this definitive biography of W. B. Yeats left him in his fiftieth...
Poetic & Real Worlds of Cesar Vallejo (18921938): A Struggle Between Art & Politics
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The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (18921938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist...
Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
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It is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917...
Building the Skyline: The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
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The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form?...
Garibaldi: Citizen of the World: A Biography
Allan Cameron and Alfonso Scirocco
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What adventure novelist could have invented the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi? The revolutionary,...
Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola
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"A rich and fascinating book about an overlooked African powerhouse by a travel writer of rare...
The Making of Gone with the Wind
Robert Osborne and Steve Wilson
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth...
Svetik: A Family Portrait of Sviatoslav Richter
Anthony Phillips, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Walter Moskalew
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For well over half a century, since the Soviet regime first allowed Sviatoslav Richter to travel to...
Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present
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This book narrates the history of the different peoples who have lived in the three major regions of...