The Lure of the Beach: A Global History 0520215958, 9780520215955

The Lure of the Beach: A Global History 9780520974654

A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfo

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Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy 9780814729281

The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession

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The Lure of the Limerick: An Uninhibited History

From Back Cover: The limerick's an art-form complex Whose contents run chiefly to sex. It's famous for virgins

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The Lure of Wisdom

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The Lure of Old London

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The Beach of Falesa 9781503620896

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Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom 9780300171679

Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know—the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself—bu

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The Letters of Sylvia Beach 9780231517843

Founder of the Left Bank bookstore Shakespeare and Company and the first publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses, Sylvia

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The Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History 9781501760136

The Neomercantilists shows how we might construct more global approaches to the study of international political economy

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The Tar Baby: A Global History 9781400885619

A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale Perhaps the best-known version of the tar

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