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History of a Pleasure Seeker. by Richard Mason
Published: 2011-05
Hardcover: 288 pages
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'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansion...
History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
Published: 2011-02-15
Hardcover: 272 pages
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?It is so nice to be happy. It always gives me a good feeling to see other people happy. . . . It is so easy to achieve.? ?Kim's journal entry, May 3, 1988 On the night of April 15, 1990, Jill Bialosky's twenty-one-year-old sister Kim came home from a bar in downtown Cleveland. She argued ...
History of Food
Published: 1994-08-01
Paperback: 824 pages
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The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this definitive history. She looks at the transition from a vegetable - to an increasingly meat-based diet, as well as at the relationship between people and what they...
History Of God : The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Published: 1993-09-28
Hardcover: 460 pages
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"Strange as it may seem, the idea of 'God' developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism," Karen Armstrong asserts in her fascinating work A History of God. Armstrong considers herself a "historian of ideas," and with this broad view she gives a compelling account of t...
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
Published: 2008-05-05
Hardcover: 352 pages
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History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced
Published: 1996-08
Hardcover: 506 pages
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The History of Love: A Novel
Published: 2006-05-17
Kindle Edition: 272 pages
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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE.A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But ...
The History of Now
Published: 2009-03-01
Hardcover: 296 pages
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Small. almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, an...
A History of Pi
Published: 1976-07-15
Paperback: 208 pages
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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress -- and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism...
A History of Reading
Published: 1998
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