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Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Ifs and Buts Personal Terms 5

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781847771223, Carcanet, March 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play "Something's Wrong", and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles. "Ifs and Buts" continues the sharply stylish extracts from the journ...

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Performing Arts

I, Maya Plisetskaya

Plisetskaya Maya, Bouis Antonina W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172478, Yale University Press, September 2010
470 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odysse...

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Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery "Lunatic"

Fisher Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9781849040006, Hurst Publishers, March 2010
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The descendant of German and French Catholic mercenaries, a Scots Presbyterian subaltern, and their secluded Indian wives, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre defied all classification in the North Indian principality where he was rai...

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Europe

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Ivan the Terrible

de Madariaga Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...

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Photography

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In Focus Edward Weston

Abbott Brett, Weston Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780892368099, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 61 illus.

A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works tha...

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In Focus Eugene Etget

Atget Eugene

ISBN: PB: 9780892366019, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19x15 cm, 50 duotones

Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was his genius recognized. This volume contains 50 Atget...

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In Focus Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Bravo Manuel Alvarez

ISBN: PB: 9780892366255, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 50 duotones

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2002, is Mexico's most famous photographer. In eight decades as a photographer, he interacted with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisentein, Tino Modotti and Octavio Paz, and created works...

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In Focus Julia Margaret Cameron

Cox Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780892363742, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 20x15.2 cm, 50 photos

Known as the "greatest pictorialist of her day", Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) came to photography late in life, bringing years of literary and artistic experience to what was still a relatively new medium. She believed the camera was a tool of...

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In Focus Doris Ulmann

Keller Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780892363735, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 57 duotone illus.

Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A prolific creator, she died before...

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