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Carl Linnaeus, 1707-1778, invented the system, now used worldwide, of giving living organisms 2 Latin names and through his Systema Naturae, published in 1735, brought order to all recorded knowledge about plants and animals. A keen traveller, collector, painter and geologist, his lifelong passion was for botany. This is a lively account of Linnaeus the man, his adventures in the wilds of Lapland, his family life, as well as his scientific achievements.

Frances Lincoln; 264 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w & col; hb

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The women of Crowned in a Far Country all left the countries of their birth to marry heirs to great thrones, and they all shared an inbred sense of duty. Charts the transformations of privileged princesses into women of power and historical importance.

Touchstone, 2007; 206 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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Today, Cyrano de Bergerac is remembered as the lovelorn eccentric with a big nose from Edmund Rostrand's play. The real Cyrano was sharper, funnier and more modern than the romantic hero he inspired. Addyman's biographical investigation.

Simon and Schuster, 2008; 307 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the Great Terror, America at the the time of Washington and Jefferson, Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon, Regency London, and for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed firsthand the demise of the French monarchy, the Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the rise and fall of Napoleon. Lucie Dillon -de la Tour du Pin-, a daughter of French and British nobility, was the chronicler of her age.

Harper, 2009; 480 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Traces the journey by which the nobody Rodolfo Guglielmi became the somebody Rudolph Valentino.

Faber and Faber, 2003; 514 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Well-researched book about the aristocratic Irish protestant King family, in particular the sisters Margaret and Mary -feminist governess Mary Wollstonecraft had a crucial impact on them- and the role they played in the ill-fated 1798 Irish Rising.

Ballantine, 2004; 368 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Sammy Davis Jr. was an entertainment icon, who died near bankruptcy. Birkbeck's work of investigative journalism unveils the extraordinary story of an international celebrity at the centre of a confluence of entertainment, politics and organized crime.

Amistad, 2008; 280 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Thomas Beach, alias Henri Le Caron, turned from restless adventurer to cloak-and-dagger operative risking everything -his career, his family, and his life- for Queen and country. In Delusion, Peter Edwards reveals the early history of Canadian, British, and American espionage and details the little-told historic role Canada played in the violent fight for Irish Independence.

Key Porter, 2008; 344 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hb

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Dietrich Icon is a unique examination of the many meanings of the actress-chanteuse Marlene Dietrich. Some of the essays in this collection revisit such familiar topics as Germany's complex relationship with Dietrich, her ambiguous sexuality, her star status, and her legendary legs, but with fresh critical perspective and an emphasis on historical background.

Duke, 2007; 420 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; pb

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During the 2008 election season, the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates both aspired to be understood a foreign policy realists in the mold of Henry Kissinger, who once again stood as the sage of foreign relations and the wise man who rises above partisan politics. In Eccentric Realist, the author questions this depiction of Kissinger. Kissinger has been far more ideological and inconsistent in his policy formulations than is commonly realized.

Cornell, 2010; 193 pp.; EN; index; hb

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