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Biography & Memoires

Biographies in the Global South Life Stories Embedded in Figurations and Discourses

Rosenthal Gabriele, Bogner Artur

ISBN: PB: 9783593507835, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Research into biography has historically focused almost wholly on the lives of people in the wealthier nations of the Global North. This book corrects that with a focus on the biographical histories of people – seen as part of larger groups or collec...

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Political Science

Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman

Rabinovich Itamar

ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...

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America

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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865

Robertson Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images

Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...

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Law

Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet

Rosen Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...

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Military

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Flag The Story of Revd David Railton MC and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior

Richards Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781612004471, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 pages of photos

Reverend David Railton MC served as a chaplain on the Western Front during World War I. Attached to three divisions between 1916 and 1918, Railton supported the soldiers in their worst moments, he buried the fallen, comforted the wounded, wrote to th...

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Europe

Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Last Days of Stalin

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300228847, ISBN: HB: 9780300192223, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and wa...

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Women Studies

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Mothers of Manipur Twelve Women Who Made History

Rehman Teresa

ISBN: HB: 9789384757762, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On July 15, 2004, twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, positioned themselves in front of the gates of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, India – the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. One by one, the women stripped the...

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Sport

Best Seat in the House Your Backstage Pass Through My WWE Journey

Roberts Justin

ISBN: HB: 9781782551157, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, May 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 97 colour and black&white illus.

Justin Roberts always dreamed of being a ring announcer at World Wrestling Entertainment. From playing with action figures of the Ultimate Warrior, the "Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels, Bret "Hitman" Hart and Hulk Hogan to actually announcing these la...

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Best Love to All The Letters and Diaries of Captain Eric Rigby-Jones, Mc and Bar and His Experiences as a Young Officer with the Liverpool Pals on the Western Front in 1917 and 1918

Rigby-Jones John

ISBN: HB: 9781911512059, Casemate, Helion and Company, May 2017
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 maps, 85 black&white illus.

"Best Love to All" is an account of the experiences of the author's grandfather as a young officer on the Western Front with the Liverpool Pals. Based on his unpublished letters and diaries, it covers his participation in the battles of Arras and Ypr...

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