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Jewish Studies

Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade

Cohen Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...

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Women Studies

Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life

Gornick Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...

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Robespierre A Revolutionary Life

McPhee Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300197242, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictat...

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Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa

Levine Roger S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198294, ISBN: HB: 9780300125214, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change – one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on...

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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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Military

Geronimo

Utley Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198362, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 maps, 17 black&white illus.

Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache warrior Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion...

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Christianity

Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint

Vauchez Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300198379, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, emphasizing in particular the important research of the last 30 years. He creates a complete and engaging portrait of the saint, then explores how the me...

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Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

Prochaska Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300195545, Yale University Press, August 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent Victorian lawyer, businessman, essayist and journalist. For 17 years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly "Bagehot" column. His analyses of politics, economics and p...

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