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Biography & Memoires

Calling of History Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth

Chakrabarty Dipesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226100456, ISBN: HB: 9780226100449, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

My Dear BB... The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

Cumming Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300207378, Yale University Press, April 2015
570 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes avail...

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Biography & Memoires

Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights

Claggett Charles E. Jr., Weiss Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9781883982799, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How d...

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Biography & Memoires

Susan Sontag The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

Cott Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300199024, Yale University Press, October 2014
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag f...

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Poetry

Biography & Memoires

"Mari Magno", "Dipsychus" and Other Poems

Clough Arthur Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9781847772558, Carcanet, July 2014
144 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

"The true haunts of the poetic powers", Arthur Hugh Clough wrote to his friend Matthew Arnold, "are no more upon Pindus or Parnassus but in the blank and desolate streets, and upon the solitary bridges of the midnight city, where Guilt is, and wild T...

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Biography & Memoires

Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

Chopel Gendun

ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...

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Jewish Studies

Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade

Cohen Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...

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Physics

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Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Sign Language

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On the Beat of Truth A Hearing Daughter's Stories of Her Black Deaf Parents

Childress Brown Maxine

ISBN: PB: 9781563685521, Gallaudet University Press, June 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 25 photos

As an African American woman born in 1943, Maxine Childress Brown possessed a unique vantage point to witness the transformative events in her parents' lives. Both came from the South – her father, Herbert Childress, from Nashville, TN, and her mothe...

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Biography & Memoires

Marcel Proust A Life

Carter William

ISBN: PB: 9780300191790, Yale University Press, April 2013
992 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "a la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twe...

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