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Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postw

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Screening calls from her father's creditors, hiding his mail from her mother—being the child of a compulsive gamble

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In this indelible memoir that recalls the life of her remarkable ninety-five-year old grandmother, Guardian journalist A

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A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman

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A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman

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Reclaiming the Personal underscores the political implications of oral history research in post-socialist Europe and hig

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he huge success of personal computing technologies has brought astonishing benefits to individuals, families, communitie

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For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes felt lost

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When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz's life, each heightened by it

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