In Extremis

In Extremis

By
Lindsey Hilsum
Lindsey Hilsum
2018 • 400 pages

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Reference Library

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Under the Banner of Heaven
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
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Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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26 books

Biography

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life
No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf
Clarence Darrow
Ada's Algorithm
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
Appetite for life : the biography of Julia Child
Long Walk To Freedom

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Current Events

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American Fascists : the Christian Right and the War on America
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

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86 books

Owned

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
On Photography
The Laws of Simplicity
The Problem of Pain
The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Die Kunst des Krieges

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
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Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
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Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
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186 books

Women

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Nothing daunted the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
Millions Like Us
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey the lost legacy of Highclere Castle
Call the Midwife
The Girls of Atomic City
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Journalism

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