Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
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'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular...
Dean Acheson and the Obligations of Power
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Dean Acheson was the most influential American diplomat of the twentieth century. He shaped the...
Lucky Johnny: The Footballer Who Survived the River Kwai Death Camps
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In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career,...
Kings and Presidents: Saudi Arabia and the United States Since FDR
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An insider's account of the often-fraught U.S.-Saudi relationship. Saudi Arabia and the United...
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
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In Chasing Sound, Susan Schmidt Horning traces the cultural and technological evolution of recording...
On Anxiety
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We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and...
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to...
A Rocky Road
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Over his fifty years as a Rabbi, Abraham Levy has had great influence on Jewish life in London and...
A Woman's Work
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'If I had a teenage daughter, especially one who didn't see the point of politics, this is the book...