The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today
Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon
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Understanding the Great Depression has never been more relevant than in today's economic crisis....
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
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Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who...
Women and Travel: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore and Erica Wilson
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Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a fascinating look at the behavior,...
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
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To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it...
Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe
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Philosophy, Society and the Cunning of History in Eastern Europe charts the intellectual landscape...
Arcadian Nights
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The vibrant retelling of the central Greek myths by acclaimed novelist John Spurling, author of The...
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews
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Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left,...
Rhetoric, Risk, and Secrecy in the Atomic City
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The Manhattan project's top-secret plutonium plant at Hanford, Washington, produced the plutonium...
Book of Longing
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Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of...
Borderlines
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The debut novel by a British writer with nearly two decades of African experience - a compelling...