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Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

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Letters of C. Vann Woodward

O'Brien Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300185348, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days a...

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Literary Criticism

Proust The Future's Secret

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

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Sport

Back on Track How I Recovered from a Near-Fatal Accident and Got Back on My Feet

Ford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9781782550747, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2015
280 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 black&white illus., 35 tables

Fiona Ford was no stranger to endurance. In 2006 she won both the World Championship titles at ITU Triathlon and Aquathlon in the same week. She raced seven Ironman® distance events and was used to long and hard training routines and gruelling workou...

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Wilfred Owen

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300216158, ISBN: HB: 9780300153002, Yale University Press, October 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ration...

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America

Theodore Roosevelt in the Field

Canfield Michael R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226298375, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 108 colour plates, 1 line drawing

Never has there been a president less content to sit still behind a desk than Theodore Roosevelt. When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff's edge or dressed for safari. And Roosevelt was more than just an adventurer – he was also...

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"Berlin Chronicle" Notices

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9781935662853, DAP, Publication Studio Hudson, October 2015
293 pp., 16.5x12 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A companion volume to Walter Benjamin's (1892-1940) memoir "Berlin Childhood circa 1900", "The 'Berlin Chronicle'" Notices is now in a new translation by Carl Skoggard. The German-Jewish philosopher, theorist and critic Wal...

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Berlin Childhood circa 1900

Benjamin Walter

ISBN: PB: 9781935662136, DAP, Publication Studio Hudson, October 2015
326 pp., 16.5x12 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This fresh translation by Carl Skoggard of philosopher Walter Benjamin's (1892-1940) engaging memoir remains faithful to the author's voice. Readers are offered glimpses of an anonymous Berlin childhood which might have bee...

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Sign Language

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Women and Deafness Double Visions

Brueggemann Brenda Jo, Burch Susan

ISBN: PB: 9781563686177, Gallaudet University Press, October 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables, 19 figures, sign illus.

This new collection bridges two dynamic academic fields: Women's Studies and Deaf Studies. The 14 contributors to this interdisciplinary volume apply research and methodological approaches from sociology, ethnography, literary/film studies, history,...

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Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929-1940

Boissel Jessica, Weber Nicholas Fox

ISBN: PB: 9780300212570, Yale University Press, September 2015
172 pp., 26x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between the...

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