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Judge A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune

Mellon James

ISBN: HB: 9780300167146, Yale University Press, May 2011
528 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and...

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Calvin

Gordon Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300170849, Yale University Press, April 2011
416 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 12 black&white illus.

During the glory days of the French Renaissance, young John Calvin (1509-1564) experienced a profound conversion to the faith of the Reformation. For the rest of his days he lived out the implications of that transformation – as exile, inspired refor...

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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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Richard Strauss A Musical Life

Holden Raymond

ISBN: HB: 9780300126426, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 23.8x16 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Renowned today as the gifted composer of a string of masterworks, Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is less often remembered for his achievement as a major conductor. Yet he held important conducting posts in Munich, Berlin, and Vienna and influenced gener...

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Rosenfeld's Lives Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing

Zipperstein Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171532, ISBN: HB: 9780300126495, Yale University Press, April 2011
288 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Born in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a 'genius' upon the publication of his novel, "Passage from Home"; someone people expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when f...

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Music

Cosima Wagner The Lady of Bayreuth

Hilmes Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300170900, Yale University Press, March 2011
354 pp., 19.8x13 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner – illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bulow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Ric...

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Charles Dickens

Slater Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300170931, Yale University Press, March 2011
720 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm, 145 black&white illus.

This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal an...

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Ifs and Buts Personal Terms 5

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781847771223, Carcanet, March 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

June 1978: Frederic Raphael is in a studio for the dubbing of his television play "Something's Wrong", and a routine moment is captured by his wry alertness to vanities and foibles. "Ifs and Buts" continues the sharply stylish extracts from the journ...

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Finding Mars

Rozell Ned

ISBN: PB: 9781602231221, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2011
190 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 128 halftones

"Finding Mars" is an interwoven tale of science, travel, and adventure, as science writer Ned Rozell accompanies permafrost researcher – and inveterate wanderer – Kenji Yoshikawa on a 750-mile trek by snowmobile through the Alaska wilderness. Along t...

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Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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