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Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
ISBN: HB: 9780226658049, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship....
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£28,00
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Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life
ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...
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£16,00
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Houdini The Elusive American
ISBN: HB: 9780300230796, Yale University Press, May 2020
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, "The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American"...
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Finding Dora Maar
ISBN: PB: 9781606066591, Getty Publications, May 2020
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar (1907-1997) through a serendipitous encounter with the artist's address book In search of a replacement for his lost Hermes ag...
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£18,99
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Cnut the Great
ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...
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£30,00
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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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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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Daim Zainuddin Malaysia's Revolutionary and Troubleshooter
ISBN: PB: 9786167339955, Prestel Publishing, River Books, September 2018
244 pp., 23x15.9 cm
Daim Zainuddin is one of Asia's cleverest politicians and policy makers, as well as one of its most controversial. Twice, rescuing the Malaysian economy from near collapse, he has also been instrumental in restructuring the Malaysian economy - in par...
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£12,95
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Vivian Maier A Photographer's Life and Afterlife
ISBN: PB: 9780226599236, ISBN: HB: 9780226470757, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen until they were discovered in a seemingly abandoned storage locker. They revealed her to b...
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£26,50
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Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
ISBN: PB: 9781849049849, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's "Little Red Book" with the "Analects" of Confucius, and more. For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology o...
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