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Political Science

Complicated Man The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Knew Him

Takiff Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300177688, Yale University Press, November 2011
528 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life fr...

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Sacco-Vanzetti Affair America on Trial

Temkin Moshik

ISBN: PB: 9780300177855, Yale University Press, October 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a...

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Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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Sign Language

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Signing in Puerto Rican A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family

Torres Andres

ISBN: PB: 9781563684173, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 10 photos

The only child of deaf Puerto Rican immigrants, Andres Torres grew up in New York City in a large, extended family that included several deaf aunts and uncles. In "Signing in Puerto Rican: A Hearing Son and His Deaf Family", he opens a window into th...

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Day by Day The Chronicles of a Hard of Hearing Reporter

Thompson Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9781563683701, Gallaudet University Press, June 2008
204 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Elizabeth Thompson's hearing loss was detected when she was in elementary school, and her hearing continued to deteriorate until she became completely deaf. Like many other hard of hearing and late-deafened individuals, her hearing loss complicated t...

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Romantic Communist The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet

Timms Edward, Goksu Saime

ISBN: PB: 9781850658276, Hurst Publishers, September 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The work of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet has been widely translated, but this is the first full-length biography in any language, covering his whole career from his birth in 1902 as a member of a cosmopolitan Ottoman family to...

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Deaf Girls Rule A Photographic Essay of the 1999 Champion Gallaudet University Women's Basketball Team

Tiefenbacher Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9781563681172, Gallaudet University Press, January 2002
104 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm

During the 1998-1999 college basketball season, the Gallaudet University women's team won the Capital Athletic Conference regular season championship and advanced to the "Sweet Sixteen" round of the NCAA Division III tournament. As much as the team's...

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Creation of the World Days One and Two

Torga Miguel

ISBN: PB: 9781857543872, Carcanet, October 2000
64 pp., 21.8x13.6 cm

"The Creation of the World" is the autobiography of one of Portugal's most celebrated modern writers, Miguel Torga. Six days comprise "The Creation", published in English in its entirety for the first time. We begin with Torga's childhood in the wi...

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