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Women in the Twentieth Century
The 20th century has seen massive changes technologically, socially and in virtually every sphere of life. One of the most marked changes, however, has been the position of women in...
Monet
Impressionism took its name from the title of a painting that Claude Monet (1840-1926) exhibited in 1874. More than any other artist, Monet was the creator of the Impressionist vision,...
Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths About World Affairs
Mega-lead for Summer reading Not Quite the Diplomat describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from
An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the battles for modern art and society were being fought in France and Spain, it has seemed...
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans
Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but...
The Lack of Light: A Novel Of Georgia
A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE WEEK "Catnip for Ferrante fans." - Boston Globe "Readers will find [ The Lack of Light ] irresistible." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A...
What We Say Goes: Conversations on Us Power in a Changing World
'An indispensable review of the hottest issues in international affairs today, with the bestselling author of Hegemony or Survival.' The Boston Globe The world's foremost critic of US foreign policy,...
My Nest of Silence
Four starred reviews! "Evocative prose and illustrations bring to life...[the] heart-wrenching decisions and considerations that Japanese Americans had to face...[and] their endurance, sacrifices, and resilience." -Susan H. Kamei, author of...
Berlusconi's Shadow: Crime, Justice and the Pursuit of Power
As one of the first investigative journalists to publicly question Berlusconi's fitness for government, Economist writer David Lane sparked an uproar in Italy. Now, after years of research and using...
Little Manfred
A heartwarming story split between 1966 and the Second World War where past and present collide, unlocking memories and reuniting old friends, showing that people can become family, despite the...
'90s Baby
It's the nineties, baby! This adorable, iconic board book features everything from bucket hats to pagers, and plenty of nineties slang! I'm a nineties baby, just look at me! I'm...
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal
In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at...
With Just One Suitcase
This epic book, spanning two continents, recounts the story of three generations of two families whose lives unexpectedly intersect in their adopted country. Beautifully capturing the loss faced when war...
Revolution Day (TPB): The human story of the battle for Iraq
The first book, entitled Revolution Day will be Rageh Omaar's story of the recent Iraq war. During that conflict millions of people turned to Omaar for the quality of his...