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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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Duke Ellington's America

Cohen Harvey G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226112640, ISBN: HB: 9780226112633, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
720 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Few American artists in any medium have enjoyed the international and lasting cultural impact of Duke Ellington. From jazz standards such as "Mood Indigo" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", to his longer, more orchestral suites, to his leadership o...

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Hack Stories from a Chicago Cab

Samarov Dmitry

ISBN: HB: 9780226734736, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 22x14 cm, 66 halftones

Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have st...

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The German List

War Diary With Letters from Jack Hamesh to Ingeborg Bachmann

Bachmann Ingeborg

ISBN: PB: 9780857425324, ISBN: HB: 9780857420084, Seagull Books, October 2011
112 pp., 10.4x17.7 cm

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her "War Diary" is not a day-by-day journal but a series of...

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Philosophy

Winter's Journey Four Conversations with Marianne Brausch

Virilio Paul, Brausch Marianne

ISBN: HB: 9781906497859, Seagull Books, August 2011
190 pp., 18x11 cm

French cultural theorist and urbanist Paul Virilio is best known for his writings on media, technology, and architecture. Gathered here in "A Winter's Journey" are four remarkable conversations in which Virilio and architectural writer Marianne Braus...

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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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Hans-Georg Gadamer A Biography

Grondin Jean, Weinsheimer Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780300180169, Yale University Press, July 2011
528 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in the 1930s, neither supporting...

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Art for the Nation The Eastlakes and the Victorian Art World

Avery-Quash Susanna, Sheldon Julie

ISBN: HB: 9781857095074, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 35 black&white illus., 5 colour illus.

As prominent members of the Victorian cultural and artistic world, Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth Eastlake, along with their nephew Charles Locke Eastlake, enjoyed the friendship and support of influential figures including Prince Albert, Sir Thomas...

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Book of Liszts Variations on the Theme of Franz Liszt

Spurling John

ISBN: HB: 9781906497941, Seagull Books, June 2011
460 pp., 24.3x16.3 cm

The extraordinary career of Franz Liszt (1811-1886) as a composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist – whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe, from London and Paris to Berlin, Moscow, and even Constantinople –...

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