Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile
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Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered...
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand Against the World's Most Powerful Industry
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The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing -- "fracking" -- as...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
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For over half a century Roy Strong has amused, enraged and inspired the British public, firstly in...
The Astronaut Wives Club
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As American astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras focused on the...
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....