Franz Joseph and Elisabeth: The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary
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In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in...
Juliane's Story - A Journey from Zimbabwe: A Real-Life Account of Her Journey from Zimbabwe
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This picture book tells the story of 12-year-old refugee Juliane. At the age of three Juliane was...
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman
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In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis...
Letters from America
Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Brown
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Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831,...
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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'Groundbreaking ...It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ...a work of art, a feast...
Manchester's Radical Mayor: Abel Heywood, the Man Who Built the Town Hall
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KNOWN in his day as the man who built the Town Hall, Abel Heywood was a leading Manchester publisher...
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982
Mahmoud Darwish, Sinan Antoon and Ibrahim Muhawi
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One of the Arab world's greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of...
Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett
R. Peter Broughton and James E. Hesser
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John Stanley Plaskett was Canada's pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth...