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Biographic: Monet Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781452899, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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£9,99
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Biographic: Van Gogh Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781452752, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, December 2016
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey eac...
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Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern
ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...
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£10,99
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Proust The Search
ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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£10,99
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General and the President MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
ISBN: HB: 9780385540575, Casemate, Presidio Press, November 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order....
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£21,00
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White Sniper Simo Hayha
ISBN: HB: 9781612004297, Casemate, November 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Simo Hنyhن (1905-2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939-1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers al...
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£19,00
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Vanished Hero The Life, War, and Mysterious Disappearance of America's WWII Strafing King
ISBN: HB: 9781612003955, Casemate, November 2016
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 illus.
A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive, yet compelling, colorful and controversial commanders of World War II. Arriving late to the war, he led the England-based 55th Fighter Group against the Nazis d...
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£25,00
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Daphne Oram An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics
ISBN: HB: 9781910221112, Casemate, Anomie Publishing, November 2016
160 pp., 22x16.5 cm, 12 illus.
Daphne Oram (1925-2003) was one of the central figures in the development of British experimental electronic music. Having declined a place at the Royal College of Music to become a music balancer at the BBC, she went on to become the co-founder and...
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£20,00
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Charles Family's War A Gripping Story of Twin Brothers During World War II
ISBN: PB: 9781925275285, Casemate, Big Sky Publishing, November 2016
296 pp., 23.2x15.5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Edwin Llewellyn Charles was a slim, handsome youth, but Terence John, his brother, was beautiful and he knew it. Technically, the boys were twins, but their personalities could not have been more different. So begins this sweeping true story of a f...
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£19,00
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Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...
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£17,00
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£28,00
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