Rivers: A Very Short Introduction
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Rivers have played an extraordinarily important role in creating the world in which we live. They...
The Discovery of France: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Colm Toibin Ten years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was...
The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome
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The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future....
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an invaluable tool for historians and...
The Gathering
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"Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular...
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Lunatics
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One of them is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber...
Anselm Kiefer: A Monograph
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The work of Anselm Kiefer begins with a crucial question. How, after the Holocaust, can one be an...
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608: Pedagogue, Playwrights, Playbooks, and Play-Boys
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The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 1509-1608 uncovers the role of the...
The Dance of Death
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'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it...
1944: A Year Without Goodbyes
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The recognized cultural historian and researcher of the Middle Ages relates about the gruesome year...