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Education

Schola Ludens Europaeus Papers Offered to Roland Naul

Scheuer Claude, Dreiskنmper Dennis, Holzweg Martin

ISBN: PB: 9781782551362, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
300 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This collection of essays celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor Roland Naul. The chapters, written by colleagues and friends, illustrate the development of sport and physical activity research over four decades. The objectives were to give an ove...

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Person of Pakistani Origins

Sardar Ziauddin

ISBN: HB: 9781849049870, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or ought to be. Reflecting on his c...

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Contemporary Art

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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song A Life in Letters and Documents

Spender Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9783906915081, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2018
600 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm, illustrated throughout

Not for sale in Estonia! Author of "From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky", Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof", with never-before-published material, including diary entri...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

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Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life

Steward Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780226541419, ISBN: HB: 9780226520346, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-1993) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began to compose a remarkable autobiography. No one but his closest friends knew the many different identiti...

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Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Whistler A Life for Art's Sake

Sutherland Daniel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300232639, ISBN: HB: 9780300203462, Yale University Press, March 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 12 colour images, 94 black&white illus.

This first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the pop...

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History of Art

Whistler's Mother Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Sutherland Daniel E., Toutziari Georgia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229684, Yale University Press, March 2018
254 pp., 23.3x15.6 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This characterization, however, is far from the whole tr...

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Military

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Campaigns and Battles of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Kentucky to Chickamauga, 1861-1863

Scales John

ISBN: HB: 9781611212846, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 maps, 2 images

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most intriguing characters to emerge during the Civil War. There are no shortage of books and articles on the man and his generalship, with topics ranging from hero worship based on his extraordinary battlefield...

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Jewish Studies

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Haifa City of Steps

Scharf Gold Nili

ISBN: HB: 9781512601183, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Nili Gold, who was born in Haifa to German-speaking parents in 1948, the first year of Israeli statehood, here offers a remarkable homage to her native city during its heyday as an international port and cultural center. Spanning the 1920s and '30s,...

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Literary Criticism

Jane Austen A Brief Life

Stafford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300232219, Yale University Press, July 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Auste...

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