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Europe

Emperor A New Life of Charles V

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...

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Industrialist and the Diva Alexander Smith Cochran, Founder of Yale's Elizabethan Club, and Madame Ganna Walska

Goffart Walter

ISBN: HB: 9780300255485, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 22 illus.

A millionaire carpet manufacturer, noted philanthropist, and avid yachtsman, Alexander Smith Cochran, Yale Class of 1896, gathered a superb collection of original editions of plays and related works from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In 1911, with th...

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History of Art

Morozov The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

Semenova Natalya, Tait Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300249828, Yale University Press, October 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

A wealthy Moscow textile merchant, Morozov started buying art in a modest way in 1900 until, on a trip to Paris, he developed a taste for the avant-garde. Meticulous and highly discerning, he acquired works by the likes of Monet, Pissarro, and Cezann...

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Women Studies

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Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin

El Saadawi Nawal

ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality

Hope Cleves Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...

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Leonardo Balada A Transatlantic Gaze

de Dios Juan Francisco

ISBN: PB: 9780887486630, University of Chicago Press, New Issues Poetry and Prose, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 117 halftones

Leonardo Balada: A Transatlantic Gaze tells the story of how composer Leonardo Balada journeyed from a childhood and youth overshadowed by the violence of the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath of "the years of hunger" to a new life as a budding com...

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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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Middle East

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After the Nobel Prize 1989-1994 The Non-fiction Writing of Naguib Mahfouz, Volume IV

Mahfouz Naguib

ISBN: HB: 9781909942134, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, September 2020
700 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Naguib Mahfouz, the Arab world's only Nobel literature laureate, is best known internationally for his short stories and novels, including The Cairo Trilogy. But in Egypt he was equally familiar to newspaper readers for the column he wrote for many y...

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Music

Biographic: ABBA Great Lives in Graphic Form

Croot Viv

ISBN: HB: 9781781454084, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2020
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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Biographic: Prince Great Lives in Graphic Form

Flavell Liz

ISBN: HB: 9781781454077, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2020
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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