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Ben-Gurion
ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...
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£18,99
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Mayakovsky A Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780226056975, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 161 halftones
Few poets have led lives as tempestuous as that of Vladimir Mayakovsky. Born in 1893 and dead by his own hand in 1930, Mayakovsky packed his thirty-six years with drama, politics, passion, and – most important – poetry. An enthusiastic supporter of t...
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£26,50
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Shanghai Flair The Vision of a French Chef in China
ISBN: HB: 9789881383402, Bookport, SendPoints, November 2014
256 pp., 22.9x15.3 cm, language: English / Chinese
For sale in Balkans only! "Shanghai Flair: The Vision of a French Chef in China" is 16 stories followed by 16 recipes specially designed by Nicolas, sharing his "cooking is art belief" and his passion for Chinese cultures. 2 awards winner, Best Che...
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£12,95
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Raising Henry A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780300198911, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>Rachel Adams' life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her...
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£14,99
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Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power
ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...
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£35,00
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Auschwitz and After
ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm
Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...
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£16,99
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Ever Yours The Essential Letters
ISBN: HB: 9780300209471, Yale University Press, November 2014
880 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in exi...
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£35,00
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Max Starkloff and the Fight for Disability Rights
ISBN: HB: 9781883982799, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
In 1959, at the age of twenty-one, Max Starkloff was in a car accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. His doctors doubted he would live longer than a few days, and, if he survived, the hope for his quality of life would be minimal. How d...
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£21,00
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Gandhi A Spiritual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780300209426, ISBN: HB: 9780300185966, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm
In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years – is self-realization, to see God face to face... All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in th...
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£16,99
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£23,00
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Susan Sontag The Complete Rolling Stone Interview
ISBN: PB: 9780300199024, Yale University Press, October 2014
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag f...
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£9,99
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