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Alexander the Great A Life in Legend
ISBN: PB: 9780300164015, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 46 black&white illus.
<p>Alexander the Great (356-323 B. C. E. ) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther – across foreign cultures,...
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King Hussein of Jordan A Political Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300163957, Yale University Press, February 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.
King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne in 1953, at the age of seventeen. He inherited a country that was riven with instability; the entire Middle East was in disarray following the 1948 war and the creation of Israel, and across the region tradi...
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£15,99
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Gypsy The Art of the Tease
ISBN: PB: 9780300164480, ISBN: HB: 9780300120400, Yale University Press, February 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the first – and only – stripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, bankers, socialites, and ordinary Americans. Her outrageous...
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£23,00
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Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship of Poets
ISBN: HB: 9780300149371, Yale University Press, November 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky, highlights the parallel lives of the poets as exiles living in America and Nobel Prize laureates in literature. To create this...
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£48,00
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Pearl A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
ISBN: PB: 9780300158588, Yale University Press, August 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 11 colour images, 2 family trees
Filled with a remarkable cast of characters and set against the backdrop of imperial Russia, this tale of forbidden romance could be the stuff of a great historical novel. But in fact "The Pearl" tells a true tale, reconstructed in part from archival...
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£22,00
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Ivan the Terrible
ISBN: PB: 9780300119732, Yale University Press, July 2006
526 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This compelling biography is the first to encompass the entire life of Ivan the Terrible and to view him in the context of his own time. Notorious for a policy of unrestrained terror – and for killing his own son – his reign was devastating for Russi...
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£19,99
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Hannah Arendt For Love of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300105889, Yale University Press, November 2004
624 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writ...
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Malinowski Odyssey of an Anthropologist, 1881-1920
ISBN: HB: 9780300102949, Yale University Press, May 2004
720 pp., 23.9x16.9 cm, 40 illus.
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most colourful and charismatic social scientists of the twentieth century. His contributions as a founding father of social anthropology and his complex personality earned him international notoriety an...
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Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger
ISBN: PB: 9780300072549, Yale University Press, October 1997
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Drawing on their previously unknown correspondenc...
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Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300105612, Yale University Press, May 1994
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...
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£24,00
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