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Fibrils Volume 3: The Rules of the Game

Leiris Michel, Davis Lydia

ISBN: HB: 9780300212396, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis. A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel...

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Scraps, Volume 1 The Rules of the Game

Leiris Michel, Davis Lydia

ISBN: PB: 9780300212372, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century. Michel Leiris, a French intellectual whose literary works inspired high...

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Scraps, Volume 2 The Rules of the Game

Leiris Michel, Davis Lydia

ISBN: PB: 9780300212389, Yale University Press, May 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis. One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of...

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And No Birds Sing

Leader Pauline

ISBN: PB: 9781563686689, Gallaudet University Press, October 2016
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 8 photographs

Originally published in 1931, this memoir is an unflinching look at the life experience of a woman struggling with identity and isolation. In harrowing yet lyrical prose, Pauline Leader assails her poverty and Jewish heritage and longs to fit in with...

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Military

March By Moonlight A Bomber Command Story of Ops and Evasion, Captivity and Friendship

Love Barry, Love Jack

ISBN: HB: 9780993415210, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, July 2016
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In May 1942 RAF Bomber Command observer Jack Love's world comes crashing down, literally. His aircraft sustains flak damage and a catastrophic engine failure forces a crash-landing in Northern France. The pilot manages a safe belly-landing in a ploug...

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Europe

Dreamland of Humanists Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School

Levine Emily J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272467, ISBN: HB: 9780226061689, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...

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Last King in India Wajid Ali Shah

Llewellyn-Jones Rosie

ISBN: HB: 9781849044080, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Last King in India" is the story of an extraordinary man whose memory still divides opinion sharply today. Was he, as the British described him, a debauched ruler who spent his time with 'fiddlers, eunuchs and women' inste...

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Literary Criticism

Prospero's Son Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226142234, ISBN: HB: 9780226014418, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs". ‌ That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son...

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Primo Levi The Matter of a Life

Lang Berel

ISBN: HB: 9780300137231, Yale University Press, December 2013
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only...

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Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa

Levine Roger S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198294, ISBN: HB: 9780300125214, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change – one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on...

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