Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction
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This collection of new essays examines third-generation Holocaust narratives and the...
Updike
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Updike is Adam Begley's masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures...
Upon A Trailing Edge: Risk, the Heart and the Air Pilot
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Four out of five fatal aircraft accidents are due to human error. Three out of five are due to pilot...
When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland - now...
A Crude Look at the Whole: The Science of Complex Systems in Business, Life, and Society
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Imagine trying to understand a stained glass window by breaking it into pieces and examining it one...
A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
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The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor...
Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
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By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of...
Shute: The Engineer Who Became a Prince of Storytellers
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Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were frequently looked down on by literary critics and yet when...
Studs Terkel: Politics, Culture, but Mostly Conversation
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Studs Terkel was an American icon who had no use for America's cult of celebrity. He was a leftist...
The Baby Thief: The True Story of the Woman Who Sold Over Five Thousand Neglected, Abused and Stolen Babies in the 1950s.
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Drawing on extensive interviews and correspondence with many of Tann's surviving victims, Barbara...