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The Dictionary People
The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
2024 || Paperback || Sarah Ogilvie || Random House
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In Search of Amrit Kaur
An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris
2024 || Paperback || Livia Manera Sambuy || Random House
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All Sorts of Lives
Katherine Mansfield and the art of risking everything
2024 || Paperback || Claire Harman || Random House
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Shorto*Amsterdam
A History of the World's Most Liberal City
2024 || Paperback || Russell Shorto || Random House
In this effortlessly erudite account, Russell Shorto traces the evolution of one of the world's greatest cities. From the building of its first canals in the 1300s, through the brutal struggle for Dutch independence and its golden age as the capital of a vast empire, to its complex present in which its cherished ideals of liberalism are under siege, Shorto provides an ever-surprising, intellectually entertaining story of Amsterdam. He also weaves in his own experiences of his adopted home. In...
The Death And Life Of Great American Cities
2024 || Paperback || Jane Jacobs || Random House
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within th...