The Curious History of Vegetables 9780750959070

A Curious History of Sex 9781783528066

This is book contains, as the title promises, many delightful curiosities. There are people, for instance, who get arous

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A Curious History of Sex 9781783528066, 9781783528059

Thisis not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across allcultures throughout time, as that woul

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Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America 9780812203400

Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined tra

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Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London 0300266200, 9780300266207

The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropoli

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Curious Events in History 9781435138919

Forty strange-but-true historical happenings—from a thirty-eight-minute war to the time when a top-hat caused a riot—fro

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The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names 9781408820353

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Terrors of the table: the curious history of nutrition 9780192806611, 9780199205639, 9780191578625

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Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present 9780300221008

A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the disco

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Saint Francis and the sultan: the curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter 9780191567490, 9780199239726

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The A-Z of Curious London 9780752493992

Spooky, gruesome, weird but true things about one of the world's greatest cities come alive in The A-Z of Curious L

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