Queen and Country: Same-Sex Desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939-45
Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams and Emma Vickers
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Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed...
Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights
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Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives....
Gender studies feminism
Chocolate Unwrapped: Taste and Enjoy the World's Finest Chocolate
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* The story of chocolate: its place in history, from the Mayans to 21st-century artisan producers;...
China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China
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From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet...
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The Far Field
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Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner...
The Origin of Others: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly...
Social sciences
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
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A new and dynamic reappraisal of Winston Churchill, and his finest hour in 1940-1. Who was Winston...
A City of Heretics: Francois Laruelle's Non-Philosophy and its Variants
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Francois Laruelle has been developing his project of non-philosophy since the 1970s. Throughout this...
Canti: The Poems of Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi and Jonathan Galassi
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'So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea' Revisited and...