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Culture Studies

You Were Never in Chicago

Steinberg Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780226104157, ISBN: HB: 9780226772059, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 23x15 cm

In 1952 the "New Yorker" published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City". From garbage collection to the skyline, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses from Chicago residen...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

My Dear Mr. Hopper

Thompson Colleary Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300181487, Yale University Press, July 2013
96 pp., 23.2x19.7 cm, 20 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Edward Hopper (1882-1967), long recognized as the premier 20th-century American realist painter, was famously introverted and reclusive. He rarely spoke about his personal life, and his close friends were few and love interests fewer. Until now, ther...

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Christianity

Julian of Norwichologian, Theologian

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...

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Totally Unofficial The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Frieze Donna-Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300186963, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "geno...

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America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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Strindberg A Life

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300198065, ISBN: HB: 9780300136937, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite draw...

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Poetry

John Keats

Roe Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300197273, Yale University Press, June 2013
480 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

This landmark biography of celebrated Romantic poet John Keats explodes entrenched conceptions of him as a delicate, overly sensitive, tragic figure. Instead, Nicholas Roe reveals the real flesh-and-blood poet: a passionate man driven by ambition but...

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Europe

William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance A Portrait in Black and White

Bernard Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780300192520, Yale University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 41 black&white illus.

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. "Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance" is grounded in the dramas occasioned...

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Jewish Studies

Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

Sieg Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...

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