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West Country to World's End
During the Tudor Age the South West was famed for the innovation and endeavor of its people. Devon sea dogs Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins sailed to ‘World’s End’ in their pursuit of …
Whole Whale
One hundred unusual animals try to squeeze into the pages of this raucous rhyming tale. But will there be room to fit a whole blue whale? The humorous ending features an expansive …
Diary That Changed the World
"e;A meticulous account of the fascinating, convoluted and sometimes ugly publishing history of the world's most famous diary. Karen Bartlett's book is all the more relevant at …
Writing on the Wall
Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of …
Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in three instalments from 1776 to 1788, is widely regarded as the greatest work of history in the …
Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity
In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. …
Dematerialization
Dematerialization examines the intertwined experimental practices and critical discourses of art and industrial design in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile in the 1960s and 1970s. …
Minerva Clark Gets a Clue
Minerva Clarke is thirteen. She worries about having a Gigantor butt and being a Freak Show Loser. Or worse, if that's possible. She wants to be just a fraction as gorgeous as her …
This Distracted Globe
Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the …
Brides of the Buddha
For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has …
House at Ujazdowskie 16
The compelling history of ten Jewish families rebuilding their lives in Warsaw after the Holocaust-"e;amply illustrated . . . the book reverberates with hope"e; (Jewish …