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One Giant Leap: The Story of Neil Armstrong

By Don Brown

Finding Home: The Real Stories of Migrant Britain

By Emily Dugan

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

By Sian Evans

History Makers: Asian People Who Changed History

By Adam Sutherland

On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin

By Marie Colvin

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

By Mark Bowden

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

By Hamilton, Nigel

Staging International Feminisms

By E. Aston, S. Case

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

By J. Peakman

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

By D. Cook, A. Culley

Debating Women, Politics, and Power in Early Modern Europe

By S. Jansen

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

By Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-reed

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

By Linda E. Mitchell

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

By M. Hyvarinen, L. Muszynski

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

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

By B. Tucker

Gender and Power in Shrew-Taming Narratives, 1500-1700

By D. Wootton, G. Holderness

The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France

By Constant J. Mews

Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice

By H. Gunkel, C. Nigianni, F. Soderback

Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann

By Vincent M. Gaine

Theodore Roosevelt Abroad: Nature, Empire, and the Journey of an American President

By J. Lee Thompson

Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture

By Wanda Balzano, A. Mulhall, M. Sullivan

Close the Wicket Gate

By Johanna O'Mahony Walters, Con Houlihan

Reading Across Worlds: Transnational Book Groups and the Reception of Difference

By J. Procter, B. Benwell

Women in Transit through Literary Liminal Spaces

By T. Gifford

Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery

By Jesse Sage, Liora Kasten, Gloria Steinem

Transgender China

By H. Chiang

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part IV, England, the Ordinal Revolution and the Road to Serfdom, 1931-50

By R. Leeson

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part V, Hayek's Great Society of Free Men

By R. Leeson

Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment

By T. Ahnert