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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
Bog People
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P.V. Glob
Glob
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Conceived as a kind of a detective story, this classic of archaeological history—out of print for over thirty years—is a fascinating account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the Iron Age in Europe.
Contributors: Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Paul T. Barber , Rupert Bruce-Mitford |
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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
Savage War of Peace
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Alistair Horne
Horne
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Not only essential reading for anyone who wishes to investigate this dark stretch of history, but a lasting monument of the historian's art. |
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Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Part of Our Time
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Murray Kempton
Kempton
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Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life.
Contributors: David Remnick |
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Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China
Peking Story
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David Kidd
Kidd
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"Kidd's pieces are simple, graceful, comic, mournful miniatures of an ominous catastrophe, the unprecedently swift death of a uniquely ancient civilization." —John Updike |
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
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Norman Mailer
Mailer
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1968 was one of the most tumultuous years in American politics and society, the effects of which reverberate today. Norman Mailer was on the ground, covering Nixon's relentlessly stage-managed nomination in Miami as well as the Democratic convention in Chicago—where the violence at the heart of the American dream exploded on the streets.
Contributors: Frank Rich |
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Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West
Sacagawea's Nickname
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Larry McMurtry
McMurtry
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Once again Larry McMurtry casts a keen and elegaic eye not only on the often harsh truths of the West, but also on the power of western illusions. |
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Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West
Sacagawea's Nickname
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Larry McMurtry
McMurtry
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In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars—figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality. |
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Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour
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Nancy Mitford
Mitford
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Nancy Mitford's delightfully candid biography re-creates the spirit of eighteenth-century Versailles with its love of pleasure and treachery.
Contributors: Amanda Foreman |
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
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Iona and Peter Opie
Opie
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature.
Contributors: Marina Warner |
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Classic Crimes
Classic Crimes
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William Roughead
Roughead
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Displaying a meticulous command of evidence and unerring dramatic flair, Roughead brings to life some of the most notorious crimes and extraordinary trials of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England and Scotland.
Contributors: Luc Sante |
