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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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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...
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