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Biography & Memoires

Burghley William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I

Alford Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300170887, Yale University Press, February 2011
432 pp., 23.2x15.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) was Elizabeth I's closest adviser and, as this revealing and provocative biography shows, the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil, the steadfast rock of Elizabeth's government, had a...

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Anne Boleyn Fatal Attractions

Bernard G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300170894, Yale University Press, February 2011
256 pp., 19.8x13 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn's girlhood, her experience a...

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When the Laughing Stopped The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers

Walsh John Evangelist

ISBN: PB: 9781602230415, ISBN: HB: 9781602230293, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
197 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 32 halftones

The sudden death of renowned American entertainer Will Rogers inspired a national mourning not seen since Lincoln's death, and it still resonates today. In this intimate and informed recounting, John Evangelist Walsh recalls the events of that day an...

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Philosophy

Moses Mendelssohn Sage of Modernity

Feiner Shmuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300161755, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

The "German Socrates", Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the in...

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Ecology

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Slack Nancy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...

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Deaf in DC A Memoir

Vasishta Madan

ISBN: PB: 9781563684814, Gallaudet University Press, January 2011
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, photos

In his first memoir, Madan Vasishta described being a deaf boy in his homeland India, where "deaf" meant someone who is not human. After rising from herding cattle to being a respected photographer in Delhi, his first memoir concluded with his accept...

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