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Water Mask

Devine Monica

ISBN: PB: 9781602233720, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Water Mask" is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...

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Literary Criticism

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All the Land

Lendle Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...

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Public Health

No Matter Where the Journey Takes Me One Man's Quest for a Leprosy-Free World

Sasakawa Yohei, Muroji Rei

ISBN: HB: 9781787381377, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Leprosy has tormented mankind since records began. For much of its long history it was without cure – a disfiguring disease that stigmatised those it affected, isolating them from society. Today there is an effective treatment,...

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Europe

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Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Literary Criticism

Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask

de Figueiredo Ivo

ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...

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Biography & Memoires

Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole

Soos Frank, Ehrlander Mary

ISBN: PB: 9781602233805, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2019
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This collection of essays honors beloved Alaska historian Terrence Cole upon his retirement. Contributors include former students and colleagues whose personal and professional lives he has touched deeply. The pieces range from appreciative reflectio...

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America

Military

Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade

Barringer Sheridan

ISBN: PB: 9781611213850, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 21 images, 10 maps

Rufus Barringer fought on horseback during the Civil War with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and rose to lead the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade in some of the war's most difficult combats. Now in paperback, Fighting for General Lee: Confed...

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The German List

Anarchy's Brief Summer The Life and Death of Buanaventura Durruti

Enzensberger Hans Magnus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426000, Seagull Books, December 2018
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Northern Spain is the only part of Western Europe where anarchism played a significant role in political life of the twentieth century. Enjoying wide-ranging support among both the urban and rural working class, its importance peaked during its "brie...

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History of Art

Biographic: Picasso Great Lives in Graphic Form

Price-Cabrera Natalia

ISBN: HB: 9781781453377, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2018
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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Travel

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Wartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944

Bobkowski Andrzej, Drabik Grazyna, Engelstein Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300176711, Yale University Press, November 2018
704 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress. When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...

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