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Faisal I of Iraq
ISBN: HB: 9780300127324, Yale University Press, December 2013
560 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a great figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Ara...
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Primo Levi The Matter of a Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300137231, Yale University Press, December 2013
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of only...
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Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler
ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...
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Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade
ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...
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Fermi Remembered
ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings
Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...
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Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...
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Robespierre A Revolutionary Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300197242, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictat...
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Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life
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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Galileo Watcher of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...
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Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa
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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