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A. E. B. Coldiron

This innovative study shows how printing and translation transformed English literary culture in the Renaissance. Focusing on the century after Caxton brought the press to England in 1476, Coldiron illustrates the foundational place of foreign, especially French language, materials. The book reveals unexpected foreign connections between works as different as Caxton's first printed translations, several editions of Book of the Courtier, sixteenth-century multilingual poetry, and a royal Ar...

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D. M. Owens

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The City of Secrets

Alys Drake has been a great many things in her life — assassin, mercenary, wanderer — but right now she’s tired. Lured by the promise of an easy score she returns to her hometown only to be caught up in mysterious killings and a magical conspiracy.Accused of a crime she didn't commit (this time), Alys is forced to try and outrace the forces that would set the great city of Carlan alight, and to, perhaps, tackle the questions that have haunted her since her exile; can dark deeds tru...

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Tartu Historical Studies

During the Cold War, Estonia lay behind the Iron Curtain. Even in the grip of Soviet rule, the country underwent many important developments. This volume brings together fourteen papers on the political, economic, and cultural history of Estonia during the Cold War. Their topics range from international relations and the border regime to tourism and the media. The papers are based on extensive archival research and make use of many previously unexamined documents. The resulting book offers...

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Patrick Moore

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Cold Iron

The dead don't stay down in New Amsterdam. Somebody's making sure of it.August 1947. A heat wave has the city by the throat. At ten past midnight, Jake Morrison gets the call: industrialist Thomas Kellerman is dead in his locked penthouse, sixty floors above Wall Street, drained white without a drop of blood spilled. An hour later, the corpse gets out of its chair and goes for the detective who called Jake in.Jake came home from Omaha Beach with shrapnel ne...

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Caleb North

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Iron Curtain Hearts

West Berlin, 1961. The Wall is two months old, and everyone is keeping secrets.Dan Carter arrived in the divided city wearing the face of a brash American journalist — a cover hiding the intelligence officer beneath, and a deeper secret buried so far down he has almost convinced himself it isn't there. His assignment is simple and brutal: find the traitor feeding military secrets across the line before the betrayal costs more lives.Then a single evening in ...

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Anne E.B. Coldiron

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Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Bringing to light new material about early print, early modern gender discourses, and cultural contact between France and England in the revolutionary first phase of English print culture, this book focuses on a dozen or so of the many early Renaissance verse translations about women, marriage, sex, and gender relations. Anne Coldiron here analyzes such works as the Interlocucyon; the Beaute of Women; the Fyftene Joyes of Maryage; and the Complaintes of the Too Soone and Too Late Maryed as...

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.Drawing on rich case studies from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, and Yugoslavia, the contributors demonstrate how the Cold War’s unique socioeconomic and political context fostered unexpected experimentation and adaptation in labor mobility policies ...

While existing publications on the Cold War tend to characterise this period exclusively in terms of conflict or on the basis of irreconcilable ideological differences, this book – through a number of fascinating international case studies – shows that there were also many media-related examples of attempts for reconciliation on both sides of the Iron Curtain.Scholars of media history, more often than not, have looked at the role of media in times of conflict, war,...

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James J. Butcher

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The Unorthodox Chronicles

Grimsby, a junior Auditor in the magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, finds himself on the other side of the law in this spellbinding urban fantasy.Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby may have one case under his belt, but he’s still a novice Auditor in Boston’s Department of Unorthodox Affairs. And he’s already made mistakes.Desperate to repair his fraying friendships, he doesn’t ask too many questions when a mysterious patron offers him the chance to join a hei...

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David Smith

For 45 years the United States and the Soviet Union never fired a shot at each other and still fought every day. The battle was fought in a Brooklyn photography studio, in a Los Alamos lab, in a tunnel under Berlin, and on a bridge where a Soviet illegal was traded for an American pilot.This book follows 15 true operations that decided more than any missile. A hollow nickel found by a 13 year old boy in 1953 that led to Rudolf Abel. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg at Sing Sing on June 1...

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Miles Cameron

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Masters & Mages

A young mage-in-training takes up the sword and is unwittingly pulled into a violent political upheaval, in the first book of this epic fantasy trilogy by Miles Cameron, author of The Red Knight.Aranthur is a promising young mage. But the world is not safe and after a confrontation leaves him no choice but to display his skill with a blade, Aranthur is instructed to train under a renowned Master of Swords.During his intensive training he begins to ...

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Alex Brown

You picked up this book because you love spy stories that actually happened and you are tired of fiction that feels safer than the truth. You want the real files, the dead drops in crowded parks, the hollow nickels that hid microfilm, the pilots who fell from 70,000 feet and lived to be traded on a bridge. Or maybe you watched a Cold War thriller and wondered how much of it the history books would confirm. Whatever brought you here, you share a fascination with the 46 years when 2 superpow...