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...
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and...
JB -- An Unlikely Spanish Don: The Life & Times of Professor John Brande Trend
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John Brande Trend, the first Professor of Spanish in Cambridge in 1933, arrived at his Chair by a...
M: The True Story of Maxwell Knight: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster
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Maxwell Knight was a paradox. A jazz obsessive and nature enthusiast (he is the author of the...
Low-Volume Road Engineering: Design, Construction, and Maintenance
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"Everything that sustains us - grown, mined, or drilled - begins its journey to us on a low-volume...
Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood, Labor, and Social Development in Colonial Lagos
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-Winner of the 2015 Aidoo-Snyder Prize from the Women's Caucus of the African Studies...