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by Valerie Wald, Angela Gray, Vicki Sex ...

10 short erotic stories designed to stimulate your desires and satisfy your darkest cravings.Contents:A Birthday MénageReunionWeddingDouble DesireMaggie Gets a SpankingLate Night SwimWake-up CallMy Best Friend's HusbandServing Mr. ChambersFriendly Benefits ... Read more

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10 short erotic stories designed to stimulate your desires and satisfy your darkest cravings.Contents:A Birthday MénageReunionWeddingDouble DesireMaggie Gets a SpankingLate Night SwimWake-up CallMy Best Friend's HusbandServing Mr. ChambersFriendly Benefits
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Vice in the Barracks

Medicine, the Military and the Making of Colonial India, 1780-1868

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Series series History (R0)
Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the 2014 Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize and the 2014 Templer Award for the Best First Book by a New Author.Sex and alcohol preoccupied European officers across India throughout the nineteenth century, with high rates of venereal disease and alcohol-related problems holding serious implications for the economic and military performance of the East India Company. These
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Therefore Choose Life

The Found Massey Lectures

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This recently discovered and very timely 1970 Massey Lectures by Nobel Prize-winning scientist George Wald, now in print for the first time ever.Where did we come from, who are we, and what is to become of us — these questions have never been more urgent. Then, as now, the world is facing major political and social upheaval, from overpopulation to nuclear warfare to environmental degradation and ... Read more

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The Bayrose Files

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Shout, Sister, Shout!

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The essential biography of America’s godmother of rock ‘n’ roll whose exuberant singing and guitar playing captivated audiences and inspired generations of musicians from the 40s to todayWhen Shout, Sister, Shout! was first published in 2007, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was resting in an unmarked grave in a Philadelphia cemetery. That lack of a headstone symbolized so much of what was egregiously wrong ... Read more

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Inner Wealth

How Wellness Heals, Nurtures, and Optimizes Ultra-Successful People

by Julie Wald ...

You're a high achiever who's smart, hardworking, and successful—so why don't you feel optimized on the inside? Whether it's stress, chronic pain, or time management issues, you're feeling dangerously close to burnout. You want to cultivate a happier, healthier life, but you're overwhelmed by the sea of options and where to begin. What you need are powerful practices that you can easily implement ... Read more

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It's Been Beautiful

Soul! and Black Power Television

by Gayle Wald ...

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Shout, Sister, Shout!

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General Relativity

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Crossing the Line

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As W. E. B. DuBois famously prophesied in The Souls of Black Folk, the fiction of the color line has been of urgent concern in defining a certain twentieth-century U.S. racial “order.” Yet the very arbitrariness of this line also gives rise to opportunities for racial “passing,” a practice through which subjects appropriate the terms of racial discourse. To erode race’s authority, Gayle Wald ... Read more

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My Famous Brain

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