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Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist Three Lives in an Age of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300243062, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco...
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£32,00
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Truth Has a Different Shape
ISBN: PB: 9781933880761, University of Chicago Press, CavanKerry Press, February 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
A family built, a family lost. "Truth Has a Different Shape" is a story of the power of compassion, of love and loss, revelations and relationship, and the evolution of self. Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, Kari O'Driscoll was taught that strength...
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£17,00
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Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857425522, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. "Ron Vawter's Life in Performance" is the first book focused on this incomparable a...
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£22,00
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Of Morsels and Marvels
ISBN: HB: 9780857426932, Seagull Books, February 2020
324 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For many, cooking is simply the mechanical act of reproducing standard recipes. To Maryse Conde, however, cooking implies creativity and personal invention, on par with the complexity of writing a story. A cook, she explains, uses spices and flavors...
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£20,00
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Walt Whitman Speaks His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America
ISBN: PB: 9781784108946, Carcanet, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
To mark the bicentenary of Walt Whitman's death, Carcanet publishesa distillation from Horace Traubel's conversations with the great American poet. Whitman speaks from the heart, an old man whochanged the course of American poetry and, by extension,...
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£14,99
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Irving Berlin New York Genius
ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...
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£16,99
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Rav Kook Everything is Rising
ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...
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£10,99
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£20,00
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Trials of Thomas Morton An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
ISBN: HB: 9780300230109, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 19 black&white illus.
Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian...
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£22,50
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T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question
ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...
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£17,00
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Mother of Orphans The True and Curious Story of Irish Alice, a Colored Man's Widow
ISBN: PB: 9781940939780, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Mother of Orphans" is the compelling true story of Alice, an Irish-American woman who defied rigid social structures to form a family with a black man in Ohio in 1899. Alice and her husband had three children together, but after his death in 1912, A...
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£16,00
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