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Sport

Joe Louis Hard Times Man

Roberts Randy

ISBN: PB: 9780300177633, Yale University Press, February 2012
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Joe Louis defended his heavyweight boxing title an astonishing twenty-five times and reigned as world champion for more than eleven years. He got more column inches of newspaper coverage in the 1930s than FDR did. His racially and politically charged...

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Judge A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune

Mellon James

ISBN: HB: 9780300167146, Yale University Press, May 2011
528 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and...

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Christianity

John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Travel

Joy Unconfined! Lord Byron's Grand Tour Re-Toured

Strathcarron Ian

ISBN: HB: 9781904955740, Signal Books, September 2010
288 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm

For sale in CIS only! Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul and returning as "Byron", with all that implies: the brand, the baggage and the br...

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Media Studies

Biography & Memoires

John Fuller and the Sycamore Press A Bibliographic History

Roberts Ryan

ISBN: HB: 9781851243235, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, t...

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Islam

Jinnah Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity

Wells Ian Bryant

ISBN: PB: 9781905422098, ISBN: HB: 9781905422081, Seagull Books, November 2005
275 pp., 21x13.8 cm

This book analyses the development of Jinnah's relationship with India's Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah – that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist...

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Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins That Broadway Man, That Ballet Man

Contrad Christine

ISBN: HB: 9781861541734, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2002
304 pp., 25.5x17 cm, full-colour illus.

In this first illustrated book of the celebrated choreographer's life and work, extracts from personal journals and letters with photographs from his own collection reveal how some of the masterpieces of 20th century musical theatre and dance came ab...

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Poetry

John Clare By Himself

Clare John

ISBN: PB: 9781857542882, Carcanet, July 1996
364 pp., 21.6x13.7 cm

John Clare was a defining voice of the rural poetic tradition. His story was first set down more than two centuries ago and has captured the imagination of the reading public ever since. it is told most vividly and poignantly in Clare's own words. T...

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Journal I, 1945-1955

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: HB: 9780226204161, University of Chicago Press, August 1990
227 pp., 23x15 cm

"Journal I" is a story of revewal – of the new life that began for Mircea Eliade in the fall of 1945 when he became an expatriate. Eliade came to Paris virtually empty-handed, following the death of his first wife and the Soviet takeover of Romania,...

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Journal IV, 1979-1985

Eliade Mircea

ISBN: HB: 9780226204147, University of Chicago Press, December 1989
175 pp., 23x15 cm

"Journal IV" is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced as a famous scholar – his works are being transl...

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