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From Cork to Calcutta My Mother's Story

Bose Milty

ISBN: PB: 9789384757632, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass – a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. He...

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Fibrils Volume 3: The Rules of the Game

Leiris Michel, Davis Lydia

ISBN: HB: 9780300212396, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis. A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel...

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Military

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Four Flags, the Odyssey of a Professional Soldier Part 2: Rhodesian Security Forces 1979-80, South African Defence Force 1981-83

Barr Colonel David

ISBN: PB: 9781911512493, Casemate, Helion and Company, March 2017
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Dave Barr knew from 12 years old he wanted to be a Marine. Following a series of menial jobs – including working at a shoe shiner in a barber's shop and in service stations – at 17 he joined the Marines before shipping out to Vietnam. This was his dr...

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Literary Criticism

Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Friedlander Saul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...

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Earth Sciences

Father Benito Vines The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer and Scientist

Ramos Guadalupe Luis E.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704621, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, May 2014
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 maps

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm t...

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Faisal I of Iraq

Allawi Ali A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300127324, Yale University Press, December 2013
560 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a great figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Ara...

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Physics

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Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Christianity

Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint

Vauchez Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300198379, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, emphasizing in particular the important research of the last 30 years. He creates a complete and engaging portrait of the saint, then explores how the me...

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Political Science

First Son The Biography of Richard M. Daley

Koeneman Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780226449470, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 24 halftones

"Mayor Richard M. Daley dropped the bomb at a routine news conference at City Hall on Tuesday. With no prelude or fanfare, Mr. Daley announced that he would not seek re-election when his term expires next year. 'Simply put, it's time', he said" – New...

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Frederick Douglass Papers, Volume 3, Series 2 Autobiographical Writings: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176346, Yale University Press, January 2013
1200 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

"Life and Times" was first published in 1881, toward the end of Douglass' public career. Although overshadowed in popularity by the shorter "Narrative" (1845), Douglass clearly deemed this comprehensive treatment of his life his most important autobi...

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