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Lady Anatomist The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
ISBN: HB: 9780226520810, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
248 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 50 colour plates, 20 halftones
Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714-1774), a woman artist and scientist, surmounted meager origins and limited formal education to become one of the most acclaimed anatomical sculptors of the Enlightenment".The Lady Anatomist" tells the story of her arresti...
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£34,50
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Reflections My Life in the Deaf and Hearing Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9781563684777, Gallaudet University Press, December 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, photos, figures
Hard of hearing since early childhood, John Christiansen spent the first 30 years of his life trying to fit in to a hearing world that did little to accommodate his communication needs. Although he excelled in academics, Christiansen found social sit...
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£26,50
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Shelley's Ghost Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
ISBN: PB: 9781851243396, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 83 colour illus.
Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts...
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£19,99
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At Leningrad's Gates The Story of a Soldier with Army Group North
ISBN: PB: 9781935149378, Casemate, November 2010
264 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This is the remarkable story of a German soldier who fought throughout World War II, rising from conscript private to captain of a heavy weapons company on the Eastern Front. William Lubbeck was 19 when he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in August 19...
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£14,00
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Vessel of Clay The Inspirational Journey of Sister Carla
ISBN: PB: 9781589662179, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
171 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Jacqueline Hansen Maggiore presents in this volume the biography of her lifelong friend Carol Piette, known throughout Chile and El Salvador as Sister Carla. Drawing from the memories of those who knew her and excerpts from her letters and diaries, "...
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£13,50
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Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility
ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...
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£26,00
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Archbishop Oscar Romero A Disciple Who Revealed the Glory of God
ISBN: PB: 9781589662117, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During his lifetime, Archbishop Oscar Romero chose to live the Christian Gospel in a radical way, defending, supporting, and serving the poor, and confronting the oppressive and murderous violence of the Salvadoran dictatorship. As a result, in March...
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£13,50
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White Field, Black Sheep A Lithuanian-American Life
ISBN: HB: 9780226505305, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
200 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 21 halftones
Her parents never really explained what a D. P. was. Years later Daiva Markelis learned that "displaced person" was the designation bestowed upon European refugees like her mom and dad who fled communist Lithuania after the war. Growing up in the Chi...
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£17,00
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Mysticism of Kindness The Lucie Christine Story
ISBN: PB: 9781589662063, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, November 2010
270 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
On the surface, Lucie Christine – the pseudonym given to a nineteenth-century Frenchwoman named Mathilde Boutle – was a very ordinary upper-middle-class woman, fulfilling her daily responsibilities to her husband and children. But underneath, Lucie C...
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£20,00
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On Sunspots
ISBN: PB: 9780226707167, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
410 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 108 halftones
Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets or m...
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£42,00
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