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The History of Swimming: A Memoir
Published: 2007-09-20
Paperback: 288 pages
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The History of Swimming details author Kim Powers' frantic search for his twin brother Tim -- his best friend, his greatest enemy -- who disappears from Manhattan one weekend in his late twenties. Kim -- almost mystically -- imagines that the clues to Tim's whereabouts have been planted in a series of...
The History of Texas
Published: 2007-08-30
Paperback: 503 pages
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The principle that all people make history continues to drive the Fourth Edition of our well-loved text, one that continues to consider the different cultures within the state as well as the unique heritage shared by all Texans. Unlike other surveys of the Lone Star State, "The History of Texas" goes...
A History of the Wife
Published: 2002-02-01
Paperback: 464 pages
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How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procr...
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Published: 2011-01
Hardcover: 608 pages
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'In this book, we travel back in time and across the globe, to see how we humans have shaped our world and been shaped by it over the past two million years. The story is told exclusively through the things that humans have made - all sorts of things, carefully designed and then either adm...
A History of the World in Six Glasses
Published: 2006-08-22
Paperback: 0 pages
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Whatever your favourite tipple, when you pour yourself a drink, you have the past in a glass.You can likely find them all in your own kitchen — beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, cola. Line them up on the counter, and there you have it: thousands of years of human history in six drink...
The History of Torture
Published: 1986-06
Hardcover: 221 pages
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'Morality is nothing more than an expression of expediency' a notorious torturer reportedly once replied to objections about his profession. From the primitive snake pit to sophisticated methods of brainwashing, literally thousands of techniques have been devised to distort both the body a...
The History of White People
Published: 2010-03-15
Hardcover: 512 pages
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A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of ?whiteness??an illuminating work on the history of race and power. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter tells perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history. Beginning at the roots of Western civilization, she traces the ...
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (P.S.)
Published: 2006-04-01
Paperback: 400 pages
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Hit and Run LP
Published: 2008-07-01
Paperback: 416 pages
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Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
Published: 2006-03-27
Paperback: 254 pages
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Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was ther...
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