
Escape from Baghdad!
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Welcome to Baghdad during the US invasion. A desperate American military has created a power vacuum...

Go Giants
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To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood...

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Great Physicists: The Life and Times of Leading Physicists from Galileo to Hawking
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Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from...
Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World
Almut Hofert, Matthew M. Mesley and Serena Tolino
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This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the...

Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
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Why do female genital cutting practices persist? How does circumcision affect the rights of girls in...

Refusing the Veil
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This topic divides people - and it will divide readers of this book too. Many Muslims worldwide...

The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck: Who Were They
Judith Buber Agassi and Sigrid Jacobeit
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Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the...

Trans/Portraits
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Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture,...

A Brief History of Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice
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In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to...