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Biography & Memoires

Charles Dickens

Slater Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300170931, Yale University Press, March 2011
720 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm, 145 black&white illus.

This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal an...

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Ecology

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Slack Nancy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...

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Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art

Sensibar Judith L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...

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Travel

Joy Unconfined! Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-Toured

Strathcarron Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781904955740, Signal Books, September 2010
288 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as "Byron", with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the br...

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Sugamo Diary

Sasakawa Ryochi

ISBN: HB: 9781849040525, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This astonishing diary and collection of letters were written by Ryoichi Sasakawa, a wealthy business tycoon, statesman, nationalist leader, philanthropist, and war crime suspect. He has been variously cast as a Japanese don, t...

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World

Alexander the Great A Life in Legend

Stoneman Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300164015, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 46 black&white illus.

<p>Alexander the Great (356-323 B. C. E. ) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther – across foreign cultures,...

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Gypsy The Art of the Tease

Shteir Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780300164480, ISBN: HB: 9780300120400, Yale University Press, February 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first – and only – stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous...

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Europe

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Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia

Smith Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780300158588, Yale University Press, August 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 11 colour images, 2 family trees

Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact "The Pearl" tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival...

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Sign Language

Biography & Memoires

Deaf Adolescents Inner Lives and Lifeworld Development

Sheridan Martha

ISBN: HB: 9781563683695, Gallaudet University Press, March 2008
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables

In her landmark book "Inner Lives of Deaf Children: Interviews and Analysis", Martha A. Sheridan explored the lifeworlds: the individual and collective elements and realities that are present within the participants' existential experiences, their re...

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Culture Studies

Conversations with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty

ISBN: PB: 9781905422289, ISBN: HB: 9781905422272, Seagull Books, May 2007
173 pp., 19.6x14 cm

Controversial, challenging and outspoken, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is best known as a deconstructionist and post-colonial theorist. With an awe-inspiring track record in several areas, ranging from Feminism and Marxism to Literary Criticism and of...

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