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Travel

Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave

Goldhill Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226301310, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
160 pp., 22x14 cm, 1 map, 12 halftones

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walke...

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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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Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art

Sensibar Judith L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...

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Ford of Heaven A Childhood Memoir of Tientsin, China

Power Brian

ISBN: PB: 9781904955016, Signal Books, November 2005
208 pp., 21.4x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Looking out to sea I whispered a farewell prayer to the wind: Help me to be content to pass by even the most beautiful places without wanting to remain in them for long or to keep them for myself". Tientsin in north-eastern Ch...

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Sign Language

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From Pity to Pride Growing Up Deaf in the Old South

Joyner Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9781563682704, Gallaudet University Press, June 2004
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The antebellum South's economic dependence on slavery engendered a rigid social order in which a small number of privileged white men dominated African Americans, poor whites, women, and many people with disabilities. "From Pity to Pride" examines th...

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Philosophy

Biography & Memoires

Friedrich Hayek A Biography

Ebenstein Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226181509, University of Chicago Press, April 2003
411 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone

In the first full biography of Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992), Alan Ebenstein chronicles the life, works, and legacy of the visionary thinker, from his early years in fin-de-siecle Vienna to his remarkable career as a Nobel Prize winning economist, poli...

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Architecture

Frank Lloyd Wright A Biography

Secrest Meryle

ISBN: PB: 9780226744148, University of Chicago Press, May 1998
652 pp., 20.3x13.2 cm, 121 halftones

Meryle Secrest's "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" focuses on Wright's family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hundred thousand of Wright's letters, photographs,...

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