
Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio
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The story of Margaret Garner-the runaway slave who, when confronted with capture, slit the throat of...

Einstein: A Biography
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Albert Einstein is an icon of the twentieth century. Born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879, he is most...

Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life
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This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and...

For the Fourth Generation
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For the Fourth Generation takes its title from a family memoir by Eva O'Malley written in 1954. In...

John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star
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New in paperback, John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star is the most authoritative and...

Kafka: The Early Years
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How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's...

Martin Leake: Double VC
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Only three men have ever won a bar to the Victoria Cross; but only two lived to wear the medal and...

Never Again: A Walk from Hook of Holland to Istanbul
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Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they...

Parsnips: Buttered: Bamboozle and Boycott Modern Life, One Email at a Time
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Dear Reader, Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram,...