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Stalin's American Spy Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials
ISBN: HB: 9781849043441, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
424 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured...
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£25,00
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Generalissimo Stalin The Myth of Stalin as a Great Military Strategist
ISBN: PB: 9781909384255, Casemate, Helion and Company, April 2014
350 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus, maps
This new book from the author of Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front reveals a bitter truth about that war, which has thrown neo-Stalinists in Russia today into a fury. A frontline veteran who survived the most savage...
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£24,00
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One Hour in Paris A True Story of Rape and Recovery
ISBN: HB: 9780226073705, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this powerful memoir, philosopher Karyn L. Freedman travels back to a Paris night in 1990 when she was twenty-two and, in one violent hour, her life was changed forever by a brutal rape".One Hour in Paris" takes the reader on a harrowing yet inspi...
HB:
£15,00
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Only Woman in the Room A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226132518, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution".The Only Woman in the Room" chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitu...
PB:
£13,00
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Seventeen Years in Alaska A Depiction of Life Among the Indians of Yakutat
ISBN: PB: 9781602232112, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2014
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
Swedish missionary Albin Johnson arrived in Alaska just before the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of miles from home and with just two weeks' worth of English classes under his belt. While he intended to work among the Tlingit tribes of Yak...
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£15,00
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Mies van der Rohe A Critical Biography (Revised Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226151458, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
512 pp., 25x17.8 cm, 144 halftones, 24 line illus.
"Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography" is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Co-authored with architect Edward Windhorst, this thoro...
PB:
£26,50
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Man with His Head in Clouds James Sadler: The First Englishman to Fly
ISBN: HB: 9781909930018, Signal Books, April 2014
288 pp., 22.4x14.9 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sadler was the first Englishman to fly. I was the first Englishman to be diagnosed with both acute acrophobia (height anxiety) and bathmophobia (an irrational fear of stairs). This explains why I have never been a high-flyer, h...
HB:
£14,99
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Miss Lou Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781908493972, Signal Books, April 2014
144 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The career of Louise Bennett ("Miss Lou") is an essential component in any reckoning of Jamaican culture. This book offers a brief account of her life (1919-2006): a story of challenges and blessings, of a journey towards natio...
PB:
£9,99
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Never a Bad Day A Collection of Columns from the Legendary Endurance Sports Icon
ISBN: PB: 9781782550303, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, March 2014
176 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In 1987, Bob Babbitt co-founded Competitor Magazine. One of the features of the publication was his editorial that ran at the front of the publication. This book is a collection of his favorite editorials from both Competitor Magazine and Triathlete...
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£11,95
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780300190595, Yale University Press, March 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War...
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£12,00
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