Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
 Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's ... [... more]
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Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia
Iris Origo was one of those rare characters who, despite being born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, went on to accomplish great things. In Origo's case, she managed to add light and color to everything she touched and left for posterity a legacy of ... [... more]
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Images & Shadows: Part of a Life (Nonpareil Book, 82)
Like an American heiress in a tale by Henry James, Iris Origo (1902-1988) was born into a world of "unfair advantages of education, money, environment, and opportunity." She used her birthright wisely, traveling the world, studying art with ... [... more]
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The Cat Who Covered the World: The Adventures of ...
There are plenty of entertaining stories written about the public mishaps and accomplishments of dogs; they are social animals and can play highly public roles in everything from television sitcoms to real-life emergency situations. The cat, as feline ... [... more]
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LEAP OF FAITH: MEMOIRS OF AN UNEXPECTED LIFE
Leap of Faith is the dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's incredible journey into the heart and hearts of a man and his nation. Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby was in the rst co- ... [... more]
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The 48 Laws of Power
"Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective," writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one's emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws ... [... more]
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Sailing Alone around the World (Penguin Classics)
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas-the first person to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly. First published in 1900, Joshua Slocum's autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable--and ... [... more]
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon
One of the great classics of Japanese literature, The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is by far our most detailed source of factual material on life in eleventh-century Japan at the height of Heian culture. [... more]
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Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American
"This autobiography of a young man who escaped the most foreboding of circumstances and raised himself up by his own bootstraps will appeal to a wide range of readers.... His courage in dealing with and overcoming a wretched existence in Haiti and ... [... more]
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Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
Dith Pran, the Cambodian photojournalist portrayed by Haing S. Ngor in The Killing Fields, compiled this collection of eyewitness accounts to the genocide perpetrated by Pol Pot's regime from 1975 to 1979. All of the survivors who recount their stories ... [... more]
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Isaac Newton
James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science-how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new ... [... more]
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals -- Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison -- confronted the ... [... more]
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