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Cabin 135 A Memoir of Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602234208, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As a young adult, Katie Eberhart moved to Cabin 135, a house on a knoll in remote Alaska. Over the next decade, growing up and growing into her home, she found herself thinking through her ever-changing ideas about aging and place, a lot of which wer...
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£16,00
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Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life
ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...
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Curious One Peter Kropotkin's Siberian Diaries
ISBN: PB: 9781551647432, ISBN: HB: 9781551647456, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Peter Kropotkin was one of the most influential Russian thinkers and activists and, though born a prince, is considered the architect of anarcho-communism. The year 2021 will mark the centennial of Kropotkin's death, which this book commemorates thro...
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£19,95
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£53,95
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Lady Ranelagh The Incomparable Life of Robert Boyle's Sister
ISBN: HB: 9780226731605, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For centuries, historians have speculated about the life of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh. Dominant depictions show her either as a maternal figure to her younger brother Robert Boyle, one of the most significant scientists of his day, or as a patro...
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£36,00
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Wanderer
ISBN: PB: 9781734618112, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2020
262 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 116 halftones
In The Wanderer, Carole J. Garrison fulfills her bucket list by meeting with the people who fascinate her and the places that lead her to them. Through her journeys, she explores the unexpected human connections that transform the experience of trave...
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£14,00
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We Defy Augury
ISBN: HB: 9780857427830, Seagull Books, November 2020
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, "this not to come... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Helene Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book – and the latest chapter...
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£16,99
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Obama The Historic Presidency of Barack Obama (Updated Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9781454937821, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
320 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, illus.
Through stunning images by White House photographers and others, as well as notable essays and quotes from a broad spectrum of people, this updated edition of Obama looks back at the President's journey from his remarkable victory to his life after t...
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Our Days Are Like Full Years A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
ISBN: HB: 9780300223125, Yale University Press, October 2020
448 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 234 colour illus., 113 black&white illus.
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year...
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£35,00
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Emperor A New Life of Charles V
ISBN: PB: 9780300254860, ISBN: HB: 9780300196528, Yale University Press, October 2020
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus., 5 maps
The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relen...
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£14,99
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Industrialist and the Diva Alexander Smith Cochran, Founder of Yale's Elizabethan Club, and Madame Ganna Walska
ISBN: HB: 9780300255485, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 22 illus.
A millionaire carpet manufacturer, noted philanthropist, and avid yachtsman, Alexander Smith Cochran, Yale Class of 1896, gathered a superb collection of original editions of plays and related works from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. In 1911, with th...
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