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Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton

By Bryan Magee

Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early Republic

By B. Tucker

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

Terror and the Arts: Artistic, Literary, and Political Interpretations of Violence from Dostoyevsky to Abu Ghraib

By M. Hyvarinen, L. Muszynski

PORTRAITS OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN: FAMILY, MARRIAGE,AND POLITICS IN ENGLAND 1225-1350

By Linda E. Mitchell

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

By S. Jansen

Women's Life Writing, 1700-1850: Gender, Genre and Authorship

By D. Cook, A. Culley

Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England

By J. Peakman

Staging International Feminisms

By E. Aston, S. Case

Monty: The Making of a General, 1887-1942 v. 1: Life of Montgomery of Alamein

By Hamilton, Nigel

Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts

By Mark Bowden

On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

By Marie Colvin

History Makers: Asian People Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

By Sian Evans

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

By Don Brown

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

By Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jane Lizop

The Poet at the Piano: Portraits of Writers, Filmmakers and Performers at Work

By Michiko Kakutani

The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia

By Evgenii V. Anisimov, J.T. Alexander

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

By Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds

The History Of: African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

By Adi, Hakim

Martin Luther King Jr.

By John A. Kirk

Mao Zedong

By Anne Faulkner

Flagship Historymakers – Elizabeth I (Flagship Historymakers S.)

By Fellows, Nicholas, Murphy, Derrick

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking from the bestselling author of Heat

By Bill Buford

Fifty Dead Men Walking

By Martin McGartland

Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation

By Kriwaczek, Paul

Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

By Annette Kuhn