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Touch and Go: A Memoir
by Studs Terkel
Published 2007 by New Press
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781595580436
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At nearly 95, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Terkel offers his long-awaited memoir that embodies the spirit of the man himself--youthful, vivacious, and enormously fun. More... |  |
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Passionate Minds: The Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment, Featuring the Scientist Emilie Du Chatelet, the Poet Voltaire, Sword Fight
by David Bodanis
Published 2006 by Crown Publishers
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780307237200
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Bodanis takes readers to the heart of the Enlightenment through the story of the affair between the politically daring writer Voltaire and Emilie du Chatelet, one of the most gifted scientists of the 18th century. More... |  |
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House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, a Family Divided by War
by Stephen Berry
Published 2007 by Houghton Mifflin Company
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780618420056
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Award-winning historian Berry charts the devastating effects of the Civil War on Mary Todd Lincolns family, and the surprising impact this struggle had on the president. More... |  |
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Watching: Encounters with Humans and Other Animals
by Desmond Morris
Published 2007 by Little Books
Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781904435549
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This wonderful recollection begins with a shy young boy who, while everyone else was dancing on the streets, celebrated the World War II Allied victory by observing a colony of rooks. After studying the behavioral habits of the 10-spined stickleback at Oxford, Desmond Morris became curator of mammals at London Zoo and quickly became a familiar figure in homes all over Britain as presenter of "Zootime," delighting millions of tea-time viewers with a daring attempt to pick up a deadly scorpion by its tail or a tumble off the back of an elephant.... More... |  |
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