The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
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On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an...
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present
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Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the...
The RAF Air Sea Rescue Service 1918-1986
Jon Sutherland and Diane Canwell
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Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support...
Berlin: Portrait of a City
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The brave city: A photographic portrait of Berlin, 1860 to today Berlin has survived two world wars,...
In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlogel and Gerrit Jackson
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History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular...
Los Angeles - Portrait of a City
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Rise and sprawl: A pictorial history of the City of Angels From the first known photograph taken in...
Pop Expressionism: Works on Paper by Rudolf Humm
Edward Lucie-Smith and Philipp-Rudolf Humm
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Philipp Rudolf Humm is a German/Belgian artist living in London. Humm started out to become an...
The Mystery of the Real Letters of the Canadian Artist Alex Colville and Biographer Jeffrey Meyers
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The work of Alex Colville, O.C. (1920-2013), one of the great modern realist painters, combines the...
Albert Schweitzer: A Biography
Nils Ole Oermann and Paul Lauer
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This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer...