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Burghley William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I
ISBN: PB: 9780300170887, Yale University Press, February 2011
432 pp., 23.2x15.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.
William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) was Elizabeth I's closest adviser and, as this revealing and provocative biography shows, the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil, the steadfast rock of Elizabeth's government, had a...
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£19,99
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Anne Boleyn Fatal Attractions
ISBN: PB: 9780300170894, Yale University Press, February 2011
256 pp., 19.8x13 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England's most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn's girlhood, her experience a...
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£12,99
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Moses Mendelssohn Sage of Modernity
ISBN: HB: 9780300161755, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
The "German Socrates", Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the in...
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£22,00
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.
Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...
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£65,00
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Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.
This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...
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£50,00
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£30,00
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I, Maya Plisetskaya
ISBN: PB: 9780300172478, Yale University Press, September 2010
470 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Maya Plisetskaya, one of the world's foremost dancers, rose to become a prima ballerina of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet after an early life filled with tragedy and loss. In this spirited memoir, Plisetskaya reflects on her personal and professional odysse...
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£31,00
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Boyle Between God and Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300169317, Yale University Press, August 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Robert Boyle ranks with Newton and Einstein as one of the world's most important scientists. Aristocrat and natural philosopher, he was a remarkably wide-ranging and penetrating thinker – pioneering the modern experimental method, championing a novel...
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£16,99
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Atmosphere of Heaven The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes an His Sons of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300168914, Yale University Press, August 2010
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maver...
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£15,00
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My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
ISBN: PB: 9780300164275, Yale University Press, March 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 65 black&white illus.
Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee...
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£16,99
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Philip II of Macedonia
ISBN: PB: 9780300164763, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Alexander the Great is probably the most famous ruler of antiquity, and his spectacular conquests are recounted often in books and films. But what of his father, Philip II, who united Macedonia, created the best army in the world at the time, and con...
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£14,99
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