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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises

Hahn Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, ISBN: HB: 9780300140972, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...

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Fashion

50 Series

50 Fashion Designers You Should Know New Edition

Werle Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783791385891, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 163 colour and black&white illus.

Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book with full-color spreads that showcase their most memorable creations. Red carpet regulars such as Armani, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Dolce & Gabbana are included, as well as the classic clothiers...

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Fiction

The German List

Dispatches from Moments of Calm

Kluge Alexander, Richter Gerhard

ISBN: PB: 9780857427021, ISBN: HB: 9780857423283, Seagull Books, October 2019
192 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 64 colour plates

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue – but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted...

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Fiction

The India List

Is It the Same for You?

Singh Neha

ISBN: HB: 9780857426963, Seagull Books, October 2019
24 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 10 colour plates

"The day they found my brother with a blood stain, I found one on my kurta too, but no one noticed my blood stain". Thus begins the story of a young girl in Kashmir as she goes through the turbulence of adolescence in her conflict-ridden world. While...

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Performing Arts

The German List

Three Plays "Rechnitz", "The Merchant's Contracts", "Charges (The Supplicants)"

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB: 9780857427120, Seagull Books, October 2019
480 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...

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Architecture

50 Series

50 Buildings You Should Know New Edition

Kuhl Isabel

ISBN: PB: 9783791385884, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
176 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

The fifty buildings presented here in chronological order represent the most compelling, intriguing, and awe-inspiring structures from all over the world. Readers will learn about masterpieces such as the Hagia Sophia in Turkey, Cambodia's Temple Com...

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Biography & Memoires

Philosophy

Karl Marx Philosophy and Revolution

Avineri Shlomo

ISBN: HB: 9780300211702, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...

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History of Art

Art Flexi-Series

Vincent Van Gogh

Kuhl Isabel

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385983, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
144 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Anyone studying a Van Gogh painting with its heavily articulated brushstrokes, dazzling color, and hypnotic perspective will wonder about the artist who created such masterpieces. Although some details of the Dutch artist's brief and tragic life have...

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Contemporary Art

Literary Criticism

Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz

Kiefer Anselm, Dermutz Klaus

ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates

"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...

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