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After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994 The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV
ISBN: HB: 9781909942134, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, September 2020
700 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many y...
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Arthur Vandenberg The Man in the Middle of the American Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226682037, ISBN: HB: 9780226433486, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
The idea that a Senator – Republican or Democrat – would put the greater good of the country ahead of party seems nearly impossible to imagine in our current climate of gridlock and divisiveness. But this hasn't always been the case. Arthur H. Vanden...
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Amilcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
ISBN: HB: 9781787381445, Hurst Publishers, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgent...
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Alfred Stieglitz Taking Pictures, Making Painters
ISBN: HB: 9780300226485, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 89 black&white illus.
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stiegl...
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All the Land
ISBN: HB: 9780857426062, Seagull Books, March 2019
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
How, in 1930, did Alfred Wegener, the son of minister from Berlin, find himself in the most isolated spot on earth, attempting to survive an unthinkably cold winter in the middle of Greenland? In "All the Land", Jo Lendle sets out to chronicle Wegene...
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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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After Germanwings The Life of an Airline Pilot
ISBN: PB: 9788875654115, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2018
218 pp., 24x17 cm, illus.
The Germanwings airline disaster, on 24 March 2015, has shaken the public opinion worldwide, since the pilot deliberately crashed his aircraft full of passengers into the French Alps. An analysis of the Germanwings crash is the starting point for the...
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Arshile Gorky: The Plow and the Song A Life in Letters and Documents
ISBN: PB: 9783906915081, DAP, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, June 2018
600 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! Author of "From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky", Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication "Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof", with never-before-published material, including diary entri...
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Autobiography or "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300234077, Yale University Press, May 2018
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still voice" that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, M. K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography. Drafted during a period of intensive fasting and "in-dwelling" a...
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Arendt and America
ISBN: PB: 9780226565538, ISBN: HB: 9780226311494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works, such as "The Human Condition", "The Origins of Tot...
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