The Maids of Chateau Vernet: A Soldier Lost in Time 173109812X, 9781731098122

The Maids of Chateau Vernet 9781731098122

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Boy Soldier: A Memoir of Innocence Lost and Humanity Regained in Northern Uganda 9781783528110, 9781783528127

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The Longer We Were There: A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier 0820355674, 9780820355672

The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories—between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other,

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The Treasure of Rennes-le-Chateau: A Mystery Solved 0750930810

Since 1890 the mysterious hoard of gold supposedly discovered by the impoverished parish priest of Rennes-le-Chateau has

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Proust’s «In Search of Lost Time»: The History of a Vocation [New ed.] 3631629311, 9783631629314

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) grew up in the fin de siècle, a period associated with melancholy and decadence. He knew the t

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A Soldier of the Seventy-First: The Journal of a Soldier in the Peninsular War 0900075899, 9780900075896

First published in 1819, this memoir covers Whitelocke's disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Penisular

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The lost art of reading: why books matter in a distracted time 9781570616709, 1570616701

Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading

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Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives 0190921579, 9780190921576

With the story of a madeleine dipped in tea, Marcel Proust makes famous moments that transport one to an earlier time th

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Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 9780300189605

One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume master

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The Helmholtz Curves: Tracing Lost Time 9780823261970

In 1850, Hermann von Helmholtz conducted path breaking experiments on the propagation speed of the nervous impulse. This

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