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Calm Fire and Other Travel Writings
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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£19,99
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I Have No Regrets Diaries, 1955-1963
ISBN: HB: 9780857426680, Seagull Books, September 2019
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"I enjoyed success too early, married the wrong man, and hung out with the wrong people; too many men have liked me, and I've liked too many men". Frank and refreshing, Brigitte Reimann's collected diaries provide a candid account of life in social...
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£25,00
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Silences of Hammerstein
ISBN: PB: 9780857427038, Seagull Books, September 2019
400 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 64 halftones
"The Silences of Hammerstein", the latest work from one of Germany's most significant contemporary authors, engages readers with a blend of a documentary, collage, narration, and fictional interviews. The gripping plot revolves around the experiences...
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£12,99
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Paris in America A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and His Daughter
ISBN: PB: 9781944838355, Gallaudet University Press, September 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Clara Jean Mosley Hall has inhabited various cultural worlds in her life: Native American, African American, Deaf, and hearing. The hearing daughter of a Deaf Nanticoke Indian, who grew up in Dover, Delaware's black community in the 1950s and 60s, Ha...
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£27,00
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Venizelos The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914
ISBN: HB: 9781787381421, Hurst Publishers, September 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Eleftherios Venizelos (1864-1936) was the outstanding Greek statesman of the first half of the twentieth century. Michael Llewellyn-Smith traces his early years, political apprenticeship in Crete, and energetic role in that isl...
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£30,00
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Biographic: Audrey Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453711, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
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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£9,99
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Biographic: Marley Great Lives in Graphic Form
ISBN: HB: 9781781453728, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, September 2019
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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£9,99
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Brutus The Noble Conspirator
ISBN: PB: 9780300246643, Yale University Press, August 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 6 maps
Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a controversial and enigmatic man even to those who knew him. His leading role in the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of...
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£11,99
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Amilcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
ISBN: HB: 9781787381445, Hurst Publishers, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgent...
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£30,00
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Henry van de Velde Designing Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9780300226669, Yale University Press, July 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 52 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.
The painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthet...
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£50,00
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