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Great Agnostic Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought

Jacoby Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205787, ISBN: HB: 9780300137255, Yale University Press, March 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

During the Gilded Age, which saw the dawn of America's enduring culture wars, Robert Green Ingersoll was known as "the Great Agnostic". The nation's most famous orator, he raised his voice on behalf of Enlightenment reason, secularism, and the separa...

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Lillian Hellman An Audacious Life

Gallagher Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300164978, Yale University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written "The Children's Hour", the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of Americ...

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Queen Caroline of Ansbach Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court

Marschner Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300197778, Yale University Press, March 2014
232 pp., 26.5x22 cm, 120 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic and energetic in he...

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Ghost Image

Guibert Herve

ISBN: PB: 9780226132341, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
160 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

"Ghost Image" is made up of sixty-three short essays – meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems – and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthe...

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Literary Criticism

Prospero's Son Life, Books, Love, and Theater

Lerer Seth

ISBN: PB: 9780226142234, ISBN: HB: 9780226014418, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
168 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs". ‌ That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son...

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Art of Being Deaf A Memoir

McDonald Donna

ISBN: PB: 9781563685972, Gallaudet University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Concerned about aspects of her romantic relationships, Donna McDonald consulted with a psychologist who asked, "Your hearing loss must have had a big impact on you?" At age 45, with a successful career in social work policy, McDonald took umbrage at...

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Literary Criticism

Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Slater Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205282, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actres...

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Hooligan's Return A Memoir

Manea Norman, Jianu Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780300197808, Yale University Press, February 2014
400 pp., 21x14 cm

At the centre of "The Hooligan's Return" is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative w...

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Military

Devil's General The Life of Hyazinth von Strachwitz - "The Panzer Graf"

Bagdonas Raymond

ISBN: PB: 9781612004327, ISBN: HB: 9781612002224, Casemate, February 2014
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the story of the most highly decorated German regimental commander of World War II, known as the "Panzer Graf" (Armoured Count). An aristocratic Silesian, whose ancestors had faced the Mongols at Leignitz, Strachwitz first won the Iron Cross...

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To Russia with Love An Alaskan's Journey

Fischer Victor, Wohlforth Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781602231405, ISBN: HB: 9781602231399, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2014
400 pp., 23x15 cm

Son of the famous American journalist Louis Fischer, who corresponded from Germany and then Moscow, and the Russian writer Markoosha Fischer, Victor Fischer grew up in the shadow of Hitler and Stalin, watching his friends' parents disappear after pol...

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