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America

Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)

Talayesva Don C., Simmons Leo W., Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew, Hine Robert V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...

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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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Silent Conversations A Reader's Life

Rudolf Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780857420800, Seagull Books, June 2013
568 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For Anthony Rudolf, reading is a profoundly serious and intense activity, as well as a major source of pleasure and solace. At the same time, it is always interrupted by day jobs, friendships, politics and, paradoxically, by the act of writing. All o...

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Film Studies

Sarah The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Gottlieb Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300192599, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 94 black&white illus.

Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career – redefining the very nature of her art – to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the am...

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S is for Samora A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream

LeFanu Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781849041942, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became independent Mozambique's first President. He died eleven years later in a mysterious p...

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Physics

Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium

Cole K. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226113470, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
416 pp., 25x15 cm, 13 halftones

How do we reclaim our innate enchantment with the world? And how can we turn our natural curiosity into a deep, abiding love for knowledge? Frank Oppenheimer, the younger brother of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was captivated by these questio...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Stalin Cult A Study in the Alchemy of Power

Plamper Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300169522, Yale University Press, February 2012
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 21 colour images, 62 black&white illus.

Between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, one of the most persuasive personality cults of all times saturated Soviet public space with images of Stalin. A torrent of portraits, posters, statues, films, plays, songs, and poems galvanized the Soviet...

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Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300111934, Yale University Press, November 2011
352 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm

Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century millenarian friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the centre of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culminatio...

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Sacco-Vanzetti Affair America on Trial

Temkin Moshik

ISBN: PB: 9780300177855, Yale University Press, October 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a...

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Judaism

Solomon The Lure of Wisdom

Weitzman Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300137187, Yale University Press, April 2011
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know – the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself – but what do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman reintroduces readers to Solomon's story and its surprising...

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