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A place to come to
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Robert Penn Warren |
After achieving world renown as a classical and medieval literary scholar, marrying twice, fathering a son, and having an ill-fated love affair, uprooted and alienated Jed Tewksbury returns to his Al… |
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Fortune and men's eyes
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Dewey Ganzel |
In 1850 John Payne Collier was acclaimed as a man of prodigious learning. A decade later, he was almost universally despised, accused of outrageous crimes and deceptions, condemned to live another tw… |
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Storm of shadows
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Christina Dodd |
**The Chosen Ones #2**
When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use… |
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Portraits of pride II
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L. P. Leung |
288 p. : 27 cm. + |
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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Meg Greene |
"This full-length biography explores the multifaceted--and altogether fascinating--life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr"-- |
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Richard Burton
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Charnan Simon |
Follows the life and accomplishments of Richard Burton, African explorer, Islamic scholar, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, and translator of "The Arabian Nights." |
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Undue Influence
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Anita Brookner |
Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular… |
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A life in letters, 1914-1982
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Gershon Scholem |
"Perhaps the greatest scholar of Jewish mysticism in the twentieth century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) once said of himself, "I have no biography, only a bibliography." Yet, in thousands of letters … |
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The savage garden
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Mark Mills |
"Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden--a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical in… |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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George Prochnik |
**Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to … |
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El Señor Mee
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Andrew Crumey |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileles… |
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Swann
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Carol Shields |
Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her… |
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Sri Chaitanyadev and Sri Gadadhar
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Rādhu Gosvāmī,Rādhu Gosvāmī |
Articles on the life and work of Gadādhara, 1486-1533, Vaishnavite religious leader, scholar from Bengal, India, and close associate of Chaitanya, 1486-1534, founder of a sect in Vaishnavism in Benga… |
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Historiadores de México en el siglo XX
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Enrique Florescano,Ricardo Pérez Montfort |
"The first part of this work offers biographical sketches of historians, including their contributions to the profession. The second part features historians' responses to a questionnaire exploring h… |
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Burton
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Byron Farwell |
Full-blooded biography, published in England in 1963 but only now making its US debut, of England's most notorious explorer; by the author of Eminent Victorian Soldiers (1985) and The Great War in Af… |
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Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
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Crawford, Michael (Consultant) |
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death, he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religiou… |
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America's obsessives
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Joshua C. Kendall |
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher. |
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Jüdische existenz in der Moderne
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Christian Wiese,Thomas Brechenmacher,Walter Homolka |
"In this book, internationally renowned historians reconstruct the biography and intellectual development of the rabbi and historian Abraham Geiger (1810-1874). The focus is on Geiger's intellectual … |
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Engaging with C.H. Dodd on the gospel of John
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Tom Thatcher |
"C.H. Dodd's Historical tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically, biblica… |
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I (still) believe
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John Byron |
I (Still) Believe explores the all-important question of whether serious academic study of the Bible is threatening to one's faith. Far from it -- faith enhances study of the Bible and, reciprocally,… |
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