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A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past through Its Proverbs

By Yen Mah, Adeline

The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present

By Stern, Fritz

What the Butler Winked at: Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne (Butler)

By Eric Horne

Decouverte Gallimard: Louis XIV, Le Roi De Gloire (DECOUVERTES GALLIMARD)

By Lebrun, Francois

Don Vito and the Mafia: Living with My Father's Secrets: The Secret Life of the Mayor of the Corleonesi

By Massimo Ciancimino, Francesco La Licata

Better To Have Gone: Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville

By Kapur, Akash

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Royal Britain: A Magnificent Study of Britain's Royal and Historic Heritage with a Directory of Royalty and Over 120 ... Houses and Castles in Britain and Ireland

By Charles Phillips, Richard Wilson, John Haywood

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers

By Shaw, Jane

Why Do Women Love Men and Not Their Mothers?

By Hamon, Marie-Christine

Things My Mother Never Told Me

By Morrison, Blake

Women, Art, and Society: 0 (World of Art)

By Whitney Chadwick

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Hudson, Kerry

Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

By Ypi, Lea

Social Order and the Public Philosophy: Analysis and Interpretation of the Work of Herbert Blumer (Studies in American Sociology)

By Lyman, Stanford M., Vidich, Arthur J.

Tamed: Ten Species that Changed our World

By Roberts, Alice

The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain

By Bas, Damian Le

Mozart and the Enlightenment: Truth, Virtue and Beauty in Mozart's Operas

By Till, Nicholas

Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation

By Nicholas Guyatt

Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture

By Warner, Marina

ON THE SPARTACUS ROAD: A Spectacular Journey through Ancient Italy

By Stothard

Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing (Continents of Exile)

By Mehta, Ved

Man in My Position (Phoenix Living Poets)

By MacCaig, Norman

Frantz Fanon - Colonialism and Alienation

By Zahar, Renate (1942-)

Lumumba: Africa's Lost Leader (Life & Times)

By Leo Zeilig

Busted: Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America

By W.D. Ehrhart, H.Bruce Franklin

The Devil: A Biography

By Stanford, Peter

The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis (Short Circuits)

By Aaron Schuster, Stockholm Inst Transition

Hegel Contra Sociology: Series 4 (Radical Thinkers)

By Rose, Gillian

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

By Anne Sebba

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

By Kaufmann, Miranda