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Biography & Memoires

Last King in India Wajid Ali Shah

Llewellyn-Jones Rosie

ISBN: HB: 9781849044080, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Last King in India" is the story of an extraordinary man whose memory still divides opinion sharply today. Was he, as the British described him, a debauched ruler who spent his time with 'fiddlers, eunuchs and women' inste...

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Performing Arts

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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Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa

Levine Roger S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198294, ISBN: HB: 9780300125214, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change – one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on...

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Jewish Studies

Looking for Strangers The True Story of My Hidden Wartime Childhood

Katz Dori

ISBN: HB: 9780226058627, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
184 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Dori Katz is a Jewish Holocaust survivor who thought that her lost memories of her childhood years in Belgium were irrecoverable. But after a chance viewing of a documentary about hidden children in German-occupied Belgium, she realized that she migh...

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World

Love and Freedom Three Lives in Hitler's Germany and Gandhi's India

Tendulkar Dhaul Laxmi

ISBN: PB: 9789381017661, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 30 halftones

In the early 1930s, Ayii Tendulkar, a young journalist from a small town in Maharashtra, traveled to Germany to pursue a doctorate in statistics. There, Ayii, eventually became well-known journalist in Berlin and he met and fell in love with the reno...

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Livingstone

Jeal Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300191004, Yale University Press, February 2013
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on...

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Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism, and Counterculture

Harrod Tanya

ISBN: HB: 9780300100167, Yale University Press, September 2012
380 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 30 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Gradua...

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Letters from America

Tocqueville Alexis, Brown Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300181838, ISBN: HB: 9780300153828, Yale University Press, April 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Young Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States for the first time in May 1831, commissioned by the French government to study the American prison system. For the next nine months he and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, travelled and obse...

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Lady Anatomist The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini

Messbarger Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226520810, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
248 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 colour plates, 20 halftones

Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment".The Lady Anatomist" tells the story of her arresti...

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