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Biography & Memoires

Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska

Eberhart Katie

ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...

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Europe

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Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries

Coquard Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...

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History of Art

Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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America

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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)

Wells Ida B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...

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Travel

Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings

Jaccottet Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780857425980, Seagull Books, September 2019
312 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

In these times of heartbreaking violence, clashing religions, and a seemingly never-ending narrative of dichotomy between East and West, wonder at the religion and culture of the Middle East can be in short supply. However, the lyrical and philosophi...

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Europe

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Cnut the Great

Bolton Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300243185, ISBN: HB: 9780300208337, Yale University Press, February 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire. Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of th...

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Europe

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Complete Maisky Diaries: 1932-1943 Volumes 1-3

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel, Sorokina Tatiana, Ready Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300117820, Yale University Press, February 2018
1672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 131 black&white illus.

Confiscated by Soviet authorities in the 1950s, the diaries of Ivan Maisky, the USSR's ambassador to Great Britain from 1932 to 1943, have been unearthed, annotated, and edited for publication in a three-volume set that Niall Ferguson predicts "will...

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Military

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Campaigns and Battles of General Nathan Bedford Forrest Kentucky to Chickamauga, 1861-1863

Scales John

ISBN: HB: 9781611212846, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 58 maps, 2 images

Nathan Bedford Forrest was one of the most intriguing characters to emerge during the Civil War. There are no shortage of books and articles on the man and his generalship, with topics ranging from hero worship based on his extraordinary battlefield...

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Claudio Ranieri T[h]inkerman

Gatas Aris

ISBN: PB: 9781782551287, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, December 2017
280 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

How does a team and a coach, who were nearly forgotten three years ago, achieve the impossible? How do they rise to the top and conquer the Premier League, the toughest league in the world? Everyone is entitled to dream big after Claudio Ranieri's mi...

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Churchill: Warrior How a Military Life Guided Winston's Finest Hours

Lavery Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781910860229, Casemate, The Pool of London Press, September 2017
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

On a typical day during the Second World War, Winston Churchill, as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, issued numerous memos to the ministers and service commanders on many different subjects, on both the grand strategy and the detail of the war...

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