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Biography & Memoires

To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey

Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...

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Totally Unofficial The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Frieze Donna-Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300186963, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "geno...

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Brian Lara An Unauthorised Biography

Fuller James

ISBN: PB: 9781908493620, Signal Books, May 2013
208 pp., 18.3x12.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The most thrilling and controversial cricketer of his generation, Brian Lara is a hero to millions worldwide. A naturally attacking style and limitless scoring arc, allied to phenomenal mental and physical stamina, proved a rec...

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Gustav Mahler

Fischer Jens Malte, Spencer Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780300194111, Yale University Press, April 2013
766 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources – some unavailable to previous biographers – and sets in narrative cont...

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Europe

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Athelstan The First King of England

Foot Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300187717, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 3 maps, 16-pages of black&white illus.

The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unpre...

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Cartoon Art

Backing into Forward A Memoir

Feiffer Jules

ISBN: PB: 9780226240350, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

Subversive, funny, and effortlessly droll, Jules Feiffer's cartoons were all over New York in the 1960s and '70s – featured in the "Village Voice", but also cut out and pinned to bulletin boards in offices and on refrigerators at home. Feiffer descri...

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Philosophy

Moses Mendelssohn Sage of Modernity

Feiner Shmuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300161755, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

The "German Socrates", Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the in...

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Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery "Lunatic"

Fisher Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849040006, Hurst Publishers, March 2010
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The descendant of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian principality where he was rai...

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Jewish Studies

American Orthodox Dreamer Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Boston's Maimonides School

Farber Seth

ISBN: HB: 9781584653387, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2003
228 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, born in 1903 and scion of a preeminent Lithuanian Orthodox family, was one of the most towering intellectual figures of American Orthodoxy in the twentieth century. After receiving rabbinic ordination and completing his...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Speak to Me!

Forecki Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780930323684, Gallaudet University Press, January 1990
154 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

This compelling true-life story deals with a single parent making the discovery that her 1-year-old son is deaf.

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