Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne, Hardcover - Douglas V. Mastriano

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A New York Review Books Original Victor Serge is one of the great men of the 20th century —and one of its great writers too. He was an anarchist, a...

The adventures of the man who created AladdinThe Book of Travels is Ḥannā Diyāb's remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man fro...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Barbara HahnNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 18Cover type: ...

Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres, Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining templ...

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Publisher: BiblioLifeAuthor(s): New York Chamber of CommerceIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 12Publication date: 2009Dimension...

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Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious details leading up to her decision to become a career...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Ottilie MulzetNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 114 x 176 x 17Cover type...

DescriptionThe surprising roots of the self-defense movement and the history of women's empowerment. At the turn of the twentieth century, women fa...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Michael PalmerNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 116 x 178 x 2Cover type:...

DescriptionIn this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. "How the Other Ha...

A chronicle of the artistic community of Great Bardfield in Essex, which was founded in 1925 by the artists Edward Barden and Eric Ravilious, who w...

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented i...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): StendhalNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 204 x 130 x 34Cover type: Pape...

The essays in this book combine the authors' personal experiences walking through the landscape and among the plants of Western New York with both ...

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This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitn...

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An NYRB Classics OriginalSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literat...

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Reducere. DescriptionFormer award-winning investigative reporter Basil Hero chronicles the lives and lessons of the twelve remaining Apollo astronauts. Only ...