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Judaism

Solomon The Lure of Wisdom

Weitzman Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300137187, Yale University Press, April 2011
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know – the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself – but what do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman reintroduces readers to Solomon's story and its surprising...

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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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World

Philip II of Macedonia

Worthington Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300164763, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and con...

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Islam

Jinnah Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity

Wells Ian Bryant

ISBN: PB: 9781905422098, ISBN: HB: 9781905422081, Seagull Books, November 2005
275 pp., 21x13.8 cm

This book analyses the development of Jinnah's relationship with India's Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah – that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist...

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Whistler on Art

Whistler James McNeill

ISBN: PB: 9781857547641, Carcanet, August 2004
240 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a central figure in the artistic life of mid-nineteenth-century Paris and London. His distinct aesthetic, with its emphasis on appreciating a work of art as an arrangement of colours, lines and shapes, can be se...

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