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Fifty Fifty Carcanet's Jubilee in Letters
ISBN: PB: 9781784108786, Carcanet, December 2019
244 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm
Each of Carcanet's fifty years is marked by an exchange of lettersbetween an author and the editor. The aim is to reveal a half century'shistory of publishing and one small, ambitious press's contribution, thenature of editing, the author/editor rela...
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£14,99
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Glikl Memoirs 1691-1719
ISBN: PB: 9781684580040, ISBN: HB: 9781684580057, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
375 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people...
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£15,00
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Jewish Woman of Distinction The Life and Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
ISBN: HB: 9781684580026, ISBN: PB: 9781684580019, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2019
400 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 17 halftones, 6 line drawings
Zinaida Poliakova (1863-1953) was the eldest daughter of Lazar Solomonovich Poliakov, one of the three brothers known as the Russian Rothschilds. They were moguls who dominated Russian finance and business and built almost a quarter of the railroad l...
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£68,00
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£23,00
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Harvey Milk His Lives and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...
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£10,99
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£16,99
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Inadvertent
ISBN: PB: 9780300248517, Yale University Press, November 2019
104 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm
"Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinkin...
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£7,95
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Bohumil Hrabal A Full-Length Portrait
ISBN: PB: 9788024639093, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
130 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 32 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Described by Parul Sehgal in the New York Times Book Review as "one of the great prose stylists of the twentieth century; the scourge of state censors; the gregarious bar hound and lover o...
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£12,00
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Peggy Guggenheim The Last Dogaressa
ISBN: HB: 9788829701292, DAP, Marsilio Editori, November 2019
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! This book offers a thorough visual biography of the life of Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) as collector, through a selection of works from the world-renowned collection she established primarily between 1938 and 1946, and to w...
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£53,00
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Sounds Like Home Growing Up Black and Deaf in the South
ISBN: PB: 9781944838584, Gallaudet University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 photos
Originally published in 1999, Sounds Like Home adds an important dimension to the canon of deaf literature by presenting the perspective of an African American deaf woman who attended a segregated deaf school. Mary Herring Wright documents her life f...
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£25,00
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Saffron "Modernity" in India Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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Our Bauhaus Memories of Bauhaus People
ISBN: HB: 9783791385280, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
336 pp., 21x13.5 cm, 60 black&white illus.
Although it flourished for only fourteen years, the Bauhaus school remains one of the most influential art and design movements of the 20th century. This collection of personal memories from Bauhaus teachers, students, and friends provides a uniquely...
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£19,99
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