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Biographic: Beethoven Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781454152, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, May 2020
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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£9,99
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Theodor Herzl The Charismatic Leader
ISBN: HB: 9780300180404, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The life of Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) was as puzzling as it was brief. How did this cosmopolitan and assimilated European Jew become the leader of the Zionist movement? How could he be both an artist and a statesman, a rationalist and an aesthete, a...
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£16,99
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Ben Hecht Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
ISBN: PB: 9780300251814, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm
He was, according to Pauline Kael, "the greatest American screenwriter". Jean-Luc Godard called him "a genius" who "invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today". Besides tossing off dozens of now-classic scripts – including "Scarfac...
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£10,99
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Multifarious Mr. Banks From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300223835, Yale University Press, April 2020
496 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 48 colour illus.
As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the "father of Australia", and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Josep...
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£25,00
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Poulenc A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300226508, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.
Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although...
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£25,00
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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...
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£16,00
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Mental Traveler A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia
ISBN: HB: 9780226695938, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 18 halftones
How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry?  W. J. T. Mitchell...
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£18,00
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Schoolmaster's War Harry Ree - A British Agent in the French Resistance
ISBN: HB: 9780300245660, Yale University Press, March 2020
192 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A school teacher at the start of the war, Harry Ree renounced his former pacifism with the fall of France in 1940. He was deployed into a secret branch of the British army and parachuted into central France in April 1943. Harry showed a particular t...
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£14,99
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Let’s Go In My Journey to a University Presidency
ISBN: PB: 9781944838621, Gallaudet University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 photos
Alan Hurwitz ascended the ranks of academia to become the president of not one, but two, universities – National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology and Gallaudet University. In "Let's Go In: My Journey to a Universi...
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£23,00
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First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader
ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps
After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...
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£12,99
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