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History of Art

Biographic: Monet Great Lives in Graphic Form

Wiles Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781781452899, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...

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Military

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Dust Donkeys and Delusions The Myth of Simpson and his Donkey Exposed

Wilson Graham

ISBN: PB: 9781921941740, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, October 2016
416 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm

"Dust, Donkeys and Delusion" examines and clinically debunks the myth that has grown up around Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the so-called "Man with the Donkey", the quintessential Australian "hero" of Gallipoli. While the various elements of the...

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America

American Ulysses A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

White Ronald C.

ISBN: HB: 9781400069026, Casemate, Presidio Press, September 2016
816 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 120 illus.

A major new biography of the Civil War general and American president, by the author of the New York Times bestseller, A. Lincoln. The dramatic story of one of America's greatest and most misunderstood military leaders and presidents, this is a majo...

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Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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Kurt Wolff A Portrait in Essays and Letters

Wolff Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780226104805, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
252 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 2 figures

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two conti...

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Triumph of Human Empire Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

Williams Rosalind

ISBN: HB: 9780226899558, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 11 halftones

In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of...

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Travel

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Keeping the Barbarians at Bay The Last Years of Kenneth Allsop, Green Pioneer

Wilkinson David

ISBN: PB: 9781908493842, Signal Books, September 2013
208 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Kenneth Allsop was a writer, journalist and broadcaster who in the 1960s and early 70s became one of Britain's first television celebrities. Voted the "fifth most handsome man in the world", he enjoyed the high life of fast car...

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Sign Language

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Amy Signs A Mother, Her Deaf Daughter, and Their Stories

Willman Gernon Rebecca, Willman Amy

ISBN: PB: 9781563685378, Gallaudet University Press, August 2012
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos

"Thirty-seven years ago, I vowed to write a truthful book about raising a deaf child". Rebecca Willman Gernon followed through on her promise with her deaf daughter Amy Willman in this extraordinary new narrative. Many stories have been told about a...

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Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300111934, Yale University Press, November 2011
352 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm

Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century millenarian friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the centre of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culminatio...

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Magnificent Mrs Tennant The Adventurous Life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian Grande Dame

Waller David

ISBN: PB: 9780300168976, Yale University Press, October 2011
308 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. The salon she established when widowed in her early fifties attracted legions of celebrities, among t...

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