Varina
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In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain,...
The Life of Images: Selected Prose
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"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective:...
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins...
Arendt and America
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German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and...
Notes on a Foreign Country
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In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen was enjoying...
Biography memoir social issues politics
Sport and National Identities: Globalization and Conflict
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While globalization has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of 'the...
Lavender and Red: Liberation and Solidarity in the Gay and Lesbian Left
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LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other...
An Atmospherics of the City: Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise
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What happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty...
A Brief History of Britain 1066 - 1485: The Birth of the Nation: v. 1: Birth of the Nation: 1066-1485
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From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how...
The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union: 2017
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This book is the first comprehensive examination of social and generational change within interwar...