Bumper: The Life and Legend of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell by Larry Writer
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Based on never-before-published family, police and court records, photographs, interviews with people who knew him, including criminals, football colleagues and police officers, this is the biography of Frank 'Bumper' Farrell. He was a gambler, a hard drinker, a devoted husband and father, a devout Cath ...Show more
Claude Levi Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory by Patrick Wilcken
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Claude Levi-Strauss, author of the modern classic "Tristes Tropiques", was one of the most influential intellectuals in the second half of the twentieth century, whose ideas and methods inspired the work of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Lacan and arguably changed the face of Western though ...Show more
Rare: A Life Among Antiquarian Books by Susan Kells
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Beautiful and valuable books, these are the mainstays of the fascinating world of antiquarian books. Kay Craddock has lived in that world for over forty years. She embarked in buisness from very modest beginnings and overcame considerable cultural and personal obstacles to reach pre-eminance in the inte ...Show more
Agatha Christie - An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's 'most absorbing mystery' -- her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings from more than 40 years ago of Agatha dictating excerpts about her life as a writer. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Chris ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
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"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...Show more
Kingpin: The True Story of Max Butler, the Master Hacker Who Ran a Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network by Kevin Poulsen
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The word spread through the hacking underground like some unstoppable new virus: an audacious crook had staged a hostile takeover of an online criminal network that siphoned billions of dollars from the US economy. The culprit was a brilliant programmer with a hippie ethic and a supervillain's double id ...Show more
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage by Hazel Rowley
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Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt's marriage is one of the most celebrated and scrutinized partnerships in presidential history. It raised eyebrows in their lifetimes and has only become more controversial since their deaths. From FDR's lifelong romance with Lucy Mercer to Eleanor's purported lesbia ...Show more
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Joan Reardon
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With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we "really "know of the inner Julia? Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced in ...Show more
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
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Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first and she poi ...Show more
The Many Worlds of R.H. Mathews: In Search of an Australian Anthropologist by Martin Thomas
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The Search for R.H. Mathews is about the life and work of the renowned 19th century surveyor turned ethnologist, whose studies of Aboriginal Australia were path-breaking and quite controversial. His childhood in Goulburn meant that he grew up with Aboriginal children as playmates, so when he began his o ...Show more
Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
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Few personalities from classical antiquity are more familiar yet more poorly grasped than Cleopatra (69-30 BC), Queen of Egypt. The subject of a vast repertory of post-antique popular culture and also a significant figure in literature, art, and music, Cleopatra herself is surprisingly little known and ...Show more
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: Life in the Back of Beyond by Tomi Ungerer
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Tiring of the hectic pace of seventies New York, acclaimed graphic designer Tomi Ungerer and his wife Yvonne hit the road in search of a new, simpler life on an isolated peninsula in Nova Scotia, Canada