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Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade
ISBN: HB: 9780226658049, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In the 1930s and '40s, Morris Ernst was one of the best-known liberal lawyers in the United States. An eminent attorney and general counsel of the ACLU for decades, Ernst was renowned for his audacious fights against literary and artistic censorship....
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£28,00
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Ron Vawter's Life in Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780857425522, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
From 1974 to 1994, Ron Vawter was a staple of New York's downtown theater scene, first with the Performance Group and later as a founding member of the Wooster Group. "Ron Vawter's Life in Performance" is the first book focused on this incomparable a...
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Rav Kook Everything is Rising
ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...
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Richard Rorty The Making of an American Philosopher
ISBN: PB: 9780226676487, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as "one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers." Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experience...
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Resisting Sherman A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865
ISBN: PB: 9781611213867, ISBN: HB: 9781611212600, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 12 maps, 45 images
Surprisingly little ink has been spilled on the final months of the Civil War in the Carolinas, despite its fascinating cast of characters, host of combats large and small, and its impact on the course of the war. Now in paperback, Resisting Sherman:...
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Recollections from the Ranks Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: HB: 9781912174188, Casemate, Helion and Company, November 2017
156 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus. and maps
From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian soldier's perspective. This volume is composed of three accounts previously unavailable in English. Detailed annotations illuminate a seldom understoo...
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£16,00
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Revolution! Sayings of Vladimir Lenin
ISBN: PB: 9781851244706, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
112 pp., 19x17 cm, 50 colour illus.
"Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement". Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of words. As a zealous orator and prolific writer, he used...
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Rabbi Akiva Sage of the Talmud
ISBN: HB: 9780300204872, Yale University Press, April 2017
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history. Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and on...
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Ruddy Awful Waste Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: The Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace
ISBN: HB: 9780993415234, Casemate, Fighting High Publishing, August 2016
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 illus.
In early 1939, 19-year-old Salopian Eric Lock joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve to fulfil his dream of flying. Within eighteen months, he found himself pitted against one of the largest air forces in the world, fighting for the survival of his homelan...
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£25,00
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Revathi A Life in Trans Activism
ISBN: PB: 9789384757755, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A. Revathi's memoir "The Truth about Me" became a sensation in India when it was published in 2011. The pathbreaking autobiography told the story of Revathi's childhood uneasiness with her male body, her exile to a house of "hijras" (the South Asian...
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