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Lake Elsinore
Fashioned by Sargent
A lavish exploration of Sargent's relationship to fashion, featuring exquisite costumes from the Gilded Age"The coat is the picture," John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow …
60 Remarkable Buildings of the National Trust
This beautifully illustrated book tells the stories behind 60 remarkable buildings chosen from the many thousands at National Trust properties across England, Wales and Northern …
Changed in a Flash
Therapeutic Revolutions
When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: back then we had few effective …
Detective Dopeyworth and the Mince Pie Mystery
It has been a quiet few weeks since Detective Jim Dopeyworth captured the Green Emerald Gang and became a hero. Jim is starting to worry that his old boss Mr "sausage fingers" Hart …
The Edward Tales
In conferring upon Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer (1921–2019) the 2013 Rea Award for the Short Story, the jury said that at the then age of ninety-two, she "has thrived at …
Literary Capital
Washington, D.C., has long been a magnet for writers and an object of interest and fascination to essayists, novelists, and poets. Literary Capital offers a compelling portrait of …
Seeds of Destruction
A child of the Greatest Generation, Elizabeth Abbott Green enjoyed immensely her formative years of the '50s and her early years of marriage in the '60s. Despite the stress brought …
Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800
With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider …
Buildings and Landmarks of 20th- and 21st-Century America
This engaging book uses buildings and structures as a lens through which to explore various strands of U.S. social history, revealing the connections between architecture and the …
Children as Agents in Their Worlds
Are children the passive recipients of influence from their parents and from society? Is their development determined by their genes and their neurons, or do they have the capacity …