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Biography & Memoires

Fiction

Biographic: Austen Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452929, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Fiction

Biographic: Shakespeare Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781452912, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, March 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each...

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Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack

Clarke Austin

ISBN: PB: 9781902669700, Signal Books, February 2017
192 pp., 20.3x12.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Austin Clarke's memoir of adolescence in 1940s Barbados has become a Caribbean classic since first appearing in 1980. Telling of a traditional Public School-style education in the colony nicknamed "Little England", it takes a w...

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History of Art

Biographic: Van Gogh Great Lives in Graphic Form

Collins Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9781781452752, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

We Are All Flourishing The Letters and Diary of Captain Walter JJ Coats MC 1914-1919

Chojecki Jan, LoCicero Michael Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781911096399, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2016
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 photos

"There have been moments during the last week or so when I had grave doubts as to whether I should see tomorrow". Compiled from the almost daily letters home and a diary written in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, We are all Flourishin...

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Criminology

Assassin of Youth A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs

Chasin Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780226276977, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 halftones

Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics from its establishment in 1930 until his retirement in 1962, Harry J. Anslinger is the United States' little known first drug czar. Anslinger was a profligate propagandist with a flair for demonizing ra...

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History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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Europe

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Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound Collected Writings

Cornford John

ISBN: PB: 9781784102487, Carcanet, March 2016
94 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Born in 1915 in Cambridge, England, Rupert John Cornford was a committed communist who fought in defence of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War and was killed in uncertain circumstances at Lopera, near Cordoba in 1936. Though his life was tragically...

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Wilfred Owen

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300216158, ISBN: HB: 9780300153002, Yale University Press, October 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ration...

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America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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