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Tchaikovsky Papers Unlocking the Family Archive

Kostalevsky Marina, Pearl Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300191363, Yale University Press, April 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and...

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Literary Criticism

Astrid Lindgren The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

Andersen Jens, Waight Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300226102, Yale University Press, April 2018
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgre...

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Music

Franz Liszt Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

Hilmes Oliver, Spencer Mr. Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780300228755, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent...

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Political Science

Yitzhak Rabin Soldier, Leader, Statesman

Rabinovich Itamar

ISBN: PB: 9780300234633, ISBN: HB: 9780300212297, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination. More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995,...

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Biography & Memoires

Bela Bartok

Cooper David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234374, Yale University Press, April 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartok's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and compose...

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Whistler A Life for Art's Sake

Sutherland Daniel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300232639, ISBN: HB: 9780300203462, Yale University Press, March 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 12 colour images, 94 black&white illus.

This first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the pop...

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History of Art

Whistler's Mother Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Sutherland Daniel E., Toutziari Georgia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229684, Yale University Press, March 2018
254 pp., 23.3x15.6 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This characterization, however, is far from the whole tr...

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Frederick Douglass Papers, Volume 2, Series 3 Correspondence, 1853-1865

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218305, Yale University Press, March 2018
720 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

The second collection of meticulously edited correspondence with abolitionist, author, statesman, and former slave Frederick Douglass covers the years leading up to the Civil War through the close of the conflict, offering readers an illuminating por...

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Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Film Studies

Steven Spielberg A Life in Films

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...

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