The Foremost Man of the Kingdom: John de Vere, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford (1442-1513)
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Earl of Oxford for fifty years, and subject of six kings of England during the political strife of...
Birds in a Cage: Germany, 1941. Four POW Birdwatchers. The Unlikely Beginning of British Wildlife Conservation
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"In the summer of 1940, lying in the sun, I saw a family of redstarts, unconcerned in the affairs of...
Casanova the Irresistible
Phillippe Sollers and Armine Kotin Mortimer
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His is a name synonymous with seduction. His was a life lived without limits. Giacomo Casanova left...
Lipman Bers, a Life in Mathematics
Linda Keen, Irwin Kra and Rubi E. Rodriguez
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The book is part biography and part collection of mathematical essays that gives the reader a...
Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir
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As a boy growing up in 1970s Johannesburg Mark Gevisser would play 'Dispatcher', a game that...
Magnus Hirschfeld: The Origins of the Gay Liberation Movement
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Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) was one of the first great pioneers of the gay liberation movement....
Nazi Fugitive: The True Story of a German on the Run
Eugen Dollmann and David Talbot
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An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS...
Jornalero: Being a Day Laborer in the USA
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The United States has seen a dramatic rise in the number of informal day labor sites in the last two...
Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
Michael L. Tushman, Rebecca M. Henderson and Ranjay Gulati
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The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global...
Money and the Middle Ages
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Jacques Le Goff sets out in this book to explain the role of money, or rather of the various types...