Prohibition Wine: A True Story of One Woman's Daring in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Marian Leah Knapp

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The memoir of a young Jewish seamstress who survived Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Franci's daughter, the Holocaust historian Helen Epstein...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

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Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

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A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

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