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Fighting for General Lee Confederate General Rufus Barringer and the North Carolina Cavalry Brigade
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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£15,00
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Anarchy's Brief Summer The Life and Death of Buanaventura Durruti
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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£21,99
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Biographic: Picasso Great Lives in Graphic Form
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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£9,99
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Wartime Notebooks France, 1940-1944
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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£25,00
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George Washington The Wonder of the Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...
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£13,99
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Schola Ludens Europaeus Papers Offered to Roland Naul
ISBN: PB: 9781782551362, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2018
300 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 100 black&white illus.
This collection of essays celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor Roland Naul. The chapters, written by colleagues and friends, illustrate the development of sport and physical activity research over four decades. The objectives were to give an ove...
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£27,50
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Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father
ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....
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£25,00
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Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance
ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...
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£16,99
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Henry David Thoreau A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226599373, ISBN: HB: 9780226344690, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
640 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live". That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and the intellectual journey it began, would by themselves be enough to place Thoreau in the American pantheon. His attempt to "live deliberately" in a small...
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£26,50
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Hearing Beethoven A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226429755, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
288 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
We're all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethoven continued to play and compose for more than a decade after he lost his hearing is often seen as an...
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£19,00
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