Final Solution The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by CESARANI PROF DAVID (UNIVERSI
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The Sultan and the Queen The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by BROTTON JERRY (UNIVERSITY OF
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When Queen Elizabeth was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she found herself in an awkward predicament. Now England's key markets would be closed to her Protestant merchants. To complicate matters the staunchly Catholic king of Spain was determined to destroy her, bolstered by the gold pouring in from ...Show more
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
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The magnum opus and latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature a symphonic oral history about the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for invent ...Show more
DEAD RECKONING TALES OF THE GREAT E TP by JOHN WILEY-JOHN
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"Something to please every shade of taste for armchair adventure."—Booklist, Top 10 Literary Travel Books Richard Burton makes a forbidden pilgrimage to Mecca; Mary Kingsley wanders alone in the jungles of West Africa; Fridtjof Nansen tries to walk to the North Pole; Mary Mummery describes a harrowing ...Show more
Falling Upwards by HOLMES SIR RICHARD
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING FELICITY JONES AND EDDIE REDMAYNE A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION BOOK OF 2013 From ambitious scientists rising ...Show more
Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity by Robert Beachy
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An unprecedented examination of the ways in which the uninhibited urban sexuality, sexual experimentation, and medical advances of pre-Weimar Berlin created and molded our modern understanding of sexual orientation and gay identity. Known already in the 1850s for the friendly company of its "warm brothe ...Show more
ARTISTS UNDER HITLER COLLABORATION AND SURVIVAL IN NAZI GERMANY by PETROPOULOS JONATHAN
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A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany "What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with t ...Show more
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
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In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince AlbertFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those years was the love of her life, her trus ...Show more
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble by Marilyn Johnson
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The author of The Dead Beat and This Book is Overdue turns her piercing eye and charming wit to the real-life avatars of Indiana Jones--the archaeologists who sort through the muck and mire of swamps, ancient landfills, volcanic islands, and other dirty places to reclaim history for us all. Pompeii, M ...Show more
The Mistress of Paris - The 19th-Century Courtesan Who Built an Empire on a Secret by Catherine Hewitt
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Catherine Hewitt'sThe Mistress of Paris is a fantastically readable biography of a nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan who harbored an incredible secret."A gorgeous, smart, ambitious, hard-working, steely autodidact and businesswoman whose product was herself, Valtesse would be totally at home in our ...Show more
The Other Paris: An Illustrated Journey Through a City's Poor and Bohemian Past by Luc Sante
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Paris, the City of Light. We think of it as the city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of white facades, discreet traffic and well-mannered exchanges. But there was another Paris, hidden from view and virtually extinct today - the Paris of the working and criminal classes that shaped the city over the ...Show more
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey ()
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The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'. Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and mild, g ...Show more