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The sequel to Frank McCourt's memoir of his Irish Catholic boyhood, Angela's Ashes, picks up the story in October 1949, upon his arrival in America. Though...View more

In an age of bolters—women who broke the rules and fled their marriages—Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild...View more

From the moment he set foot on it, Karl Rove has rocked America’s political stage. He ran the national College Republicans at twenty-two, and turned...View more

The emergence of modern physics in the first three decades of the 20th century was accompanied by a loss of determinism. That loss is embodied...View more

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For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have...View more

In the century and a half since Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what...View more

This is a history of the Afrikaner as seen through the history of one family, the de Villiers, who first moved to South Africa in...View more

From the coauthor of "The Last Lecture" comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring true story of eleven girls and the ten...View more

  Author: Marx Engels Publisher: Progress Pub Released Date: 1976  View more