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The Evolution of Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead: A Life

by Jane Howard

With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

by Mary Catherine Bateson


A Traveling Man

D.W. Griffith: An American Life

by Richard Schickel


Difficult Daughter

Antigones

by George Steiner


Embarrassing Colony

Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment

by Raymond Carr


Panic in the South

The Crucible of Race: Black–White Relations in the American South Since Emancipation

by Joel Williamson


Sons and Lovers

H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life

by Anthony West


Light and Lively

Difficult Loves

by Italo Calvino

Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories

by E.L. Doctorow


Parfit Gentil Knights

Chivalry

by Maurice Keen


King in a Corner

Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War

by Tony Hodges


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