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Crossing the Divide Representations of Deafness in Biography
ISBN: PB: 9781563682988, Gallaudet University Press, November 2006
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 photos
This remarkable volume examines the process by which three deaf, French biographers from the 19th and 20th centuries attempted to cross the cultural divide between deaf and hearing worlds through their work. The very different approach taken by each...
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£22,50
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Articles of Faith Graham Greene's Collected Tablet Journalism, 1936-19
ISBN: HB: 9781904955160, Signal Books, October 2006
164 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journa...
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£12,99
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Blind Rage Letters to Helen Keller
ISBN: PB: 9781563682957, Gallaudet University Press, September 2006
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 photo
As a young blind girl, Georgina Kleege repeatedly heard the refrain, "Why can't you be more like Helen Keller?" Kleege's resentment culminates in her book "Blind Rage: Letters to Helen Keller", an ingenious examination of the life of this renowned in...
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£15,00
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Romantic Communist The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet
ISBN: PB: 9781850658276, Hurst Publishers, September 2006
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The work of the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet has been widely translated, but this is the first full-length biography in any language, covering his whole career from his birth in 1902 as a member of a cosmopolitan Ottoman family to...
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£14,99
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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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Art Czar The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
ISBN: HB: 9780878467013, DAP, MFA Publications, June 2006
336 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 35 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the center of the American art world. His work set the tone for art criticism for half...
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£30,00
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As I See It The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty
ISBN: PB: 9780892367009, Getty Publications, March 2006
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 64 black&white illus.
While writing his autobiography, Jean Paul Getty – then perhaps the world's richest man – hoped it would be the final verdict on himself, on his many friends and associates, and on his times. Regrettably, it proved to be so: Getty died in 1976 as "As...
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£14,99
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In Focus Edward Weston
ISBN: PB: 9780892368099, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.4x15.2 cm, 61 illus.
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886-1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works tha...
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£14,99
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In Focus Eugene Etget
ISBN: PB: 9780892366019, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19x15 cm, 50 duotones
Parisian photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927) set out to capture those commonplace features that were gradually disappearing from the city he loved. Only towards the end of his 30-year career was his genius recognized. This volume contains 50 Atget...
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£14,99
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In Focus Manuel Alvarez Bravo
ISBN: PB: 9780892366255, Getty Publications, March 2006
144 pp., 19.5x15.2 cm, 50 duotones
Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2002, is Mexico's most famous photographer. In eight decades as a photographer, he interacted with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisentein, Tino Modotti and Octavio Paz, and created works...
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