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Across Many Mountains: A Tibetan Family's Epic Journey from Oppression to Freedom
by Yangzom Brauen
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 30 Oct 2012
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| An extraordinary portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence. |
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A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
by Aman Sethi
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 28 Oct 2013
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| In a time of global economic strain, this is an unforgettable evocation of persistence in the face of poverty in one of the world’s largest cities. |
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by David Bellos
Hardcover: Oct 2011
Paperback: 16 Oct 2012
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| Funny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means - whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state. |
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
by Bee Wilson
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 8 Oct 2013
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| Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. It can also mean the humbler tools of everyday cooking and eating: a wooden spoon and a skillet, chopsticks and forks. |
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
by Timothy Egan
Hardcover: Oct 2012
Paperback: 6 Aug 2013
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| How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them. |
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
Hardcover: Nov 2011
Paperback: 18 Sep 2012
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| The extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. |
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
by Simon Garfield
Hardcover: Sep 2011
Paperback: 4 Sep 2012
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| A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? |
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II
by Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
Hardcover: Jun 2011
Paperback: 28 Aug 2012
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| The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III, to testify at first hand the atrocities occurring in the camp. |
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