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  • In Leicester Fields

    In late 18th century London, dying artist Henry Grace plans to atone for unspeakable crimes he committed while a member of a hell-fire club in an extraordinary way which threatens to bring down the establishment. Secreted in the attic of his house in Leicester Fields, Grace is painting a coded, epic masterpiece which is intended to incriminate the elite and powerful of London. When fiery female ... Leer más

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  • Crime and Punishment in Victorian London

    A Street Level View of the City's Underworld

    Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films.Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. ... Leer más

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  • In Leicester Fields

    Nothing Destroys Like Art

    In late 18th century London, dying artist Henry Grace plans to atone for unspeakable crimes he committed while a member of a hell-fire club in an extraordinary way which threatens to bring down the establishment. Secreted in the attic of his house in Leicester Fields, Grace is painting a coded, epic masterpiece which is intended to incriminate the elite and powerful of London. When fiery female ... Leer más

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  • The Last of the Revolution

    Washed-up journalist Anthony Carver is given one last assignment, to interview Alfredo Ortega, the dying revolutionary leader of the island of San Joaquin. Ortega, with iconic guerrilla Christo at his side, had led the famous rebellion decades ago. By the time Carver lands, Ortega is dead. Carver tracks down firebrand freedom fighter Consuela Ramirez, hoping to learn more about a rumour that a ... Leer más

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    Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation

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    Discover some of the Victorian Era's most outlandish inventions—from the world-changing to the simply weird—in this look at nineteenth-century innovation.We all know that some of history's greatest inventions came about in the Victorian age. But in The Ingenious Victorians, John Wade goes beyond those famous advances to explore some of the weird and wonderful ideas and projects that have largely ... Leer más

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  • The Puzzle Palace

    A Report on NSA, America's Most Secret Agency

    de James Bamford ...
    The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade ... Leer más

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  • The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

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    The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door ... Leer más

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  • Bourgeois Equality

    How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    How standards of living have skyrocketed since 1800, and the political philosophy that made it possible: "Persuasive…richly detailed and erudite."— Financial TimesThere's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in this concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the ... Leer más

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  • The Crisis Years

    Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963

    The groundbreaking and revelatory tale of the most dangerous years of the Cold War and the two leaders who held the fate of the world in their hands.This bestselling history takes us into the tumultuous period from 1960 through 1963 when the Berlin Wall was built and the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union to the abyss. In this compelling ... Leer más

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  • The Workhouse

    The People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors

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    "A poignant account" of the reality behind these famous Victorian institutions where the poor resided ( The Independent).During the nineteenth century, the workhouse cast a shadow over the lives of the English poor. The destitute and the desperate sought refuge within its forbidding walls. And it was an ever-present threat if poor families failed to look after themselves properly.In this fully ... Leer más

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  • Stalin

    New Biography of a Dictator

    An engrossing biography of the notorious Russian dictator by an author whose knowledge of Soviet-era archives far surpasses all others.Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were ... Leer más

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