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Criminology

Informant The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo

May Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300184136, Yale University Press, November 2011
450 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In "The Informant", historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965...

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Literary Criticism

Aleksander Wat Life and Art of an Iconoclast

Venclova Tomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183054, Yale University Press, November 2011
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Members of adoption triangles-adoptees, birthparents, and adopting parents-must struggle with difficult and sometimes heartrending issues. Should adopted children be enabled to trace their biological parents? Does the individual's right to self-disco...

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Genius for Money Business, Art and the Morrisons

Dakers Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300112207, Yale University Press, November 2011
352 pp., 24.3x16.9 cm, 60 black&white and colour illus.

This is the spectacular rags-to-riches story of James Morrison (1789-1857), who began life humbly but through hard work and entrepreneurial brilliance acquired a fortune unequalled in nineteenth-century England. Using the extensive Morrison archive,...

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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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Magnificent Mrs Tennant The Adventurous Life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian Grande Dame

Waller David

ISBN: PB: 9780300168976, Yale University Press, October 2011
308 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence she achieved as an unsurpassed London hostess. The salon she established when widowed in her early fifties attracted legions of celebrities, among t...

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Europe

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Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Middle East

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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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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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Tocqueville and His America

Kaledin Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9780300119312, Yale University Press, July 2011
480 pp., 25x15 cm

Arthur Kaledin's groundbreaking book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. The author examines...

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