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'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years.

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"Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary convent"

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Henri Poincar (1854-1912) was not just one of the most inventive, versatile, and productive mathematicians of all time - he was also a leading physicist who almost won a Nobel Prize for physics. This book explores all the fields that Poincar touched, the debates sparked by his investigations, and how his discoveries still contribute to society.

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This book explores the life of Henry Dresser (1838-1915), one of the most productive British ornithologists of the mid-late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines how Dresser and his contemporaries discovered and documented birds across the globe. -- .

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This is a biography of Henry Hathaway, one of the unsung directors from the golden age of Hollywood. Hathaway was responsible for many near-classics of the era, including Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The House on 92nd Street, Kiss of Death, Calling Northside 777, The Desert Fox, ...

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Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years. Begun when James was sixty-eight years old, it was written at a time when his great critical mind was actively devoted to the understanding of his existence in its complicated wholeness. The reader w

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Based on previously unused or underutilized primary materials, this is the first biography of this key enlightenment thinker who advanced the general understanding of war as it existed in his day.

Lloyd wrote a multivolume history of the Seven Years' War from which he derived the Principles of War;

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This full-length biography explores the multifacetedand altogether fascinatinglife, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars.

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Combining historical scholarship and intertextual criticism, this study reassesses Henry Vaughan's entire literary career with particular reference to his relationship to George Herbert. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from

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About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. The discovery of this virus and the vaccine against it was one of the triumphs of twentieth-century medicine. This book describes how Baruch Blumberg and a team of researchers found a virus they were not looking for and created a vaccine for a disease they knew little about.

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This book tells the story of Hall of Fame pitcher Herb Pennock (1894-1948), considered one of the best left-handed pitchers in the history of the game. He pitched for the 1920s New York Yankees, won 241 games, and never lost in the World Series. Herb Pennock features interviews with family and friends and never-before-seen photographs.

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Here is the first full-length biography of Herbert Croly (1869-1930), one of the major American social thinkers of the twentieth century. David W. Levy explains the origins and impact of Croly's penetrating analysis of American life and tells the story of a career that included his founding of one of the most influential journals of the period, The

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A selection of historical materials documenting the early collaboration and later rivalry of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, this volume chronicles the time from their work together during the Wilson administration to Roosevelt's death in 1945.

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Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century's most prodigiously gifted performing artists. These, however, were only the starting point for a biography which draws on interviews with those who worked with Karajan during his sixty year career, and on a vast array of primary archive material which has never been previously examined.

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