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Gazing Eastwards Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China, 1957
ISBN: HB: 9780857428165, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 12 halftones
In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave sites that were the locations of Buddhist monasteries and shrines from the first millennium CE. The fi...
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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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Gershom Scholem An Intellectual Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780226683324, ISBN: HB: 9780226428635, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, W...
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Groucho Marx The Comedy of Existence
ISBN: PB: 9780300244540, ISBN: HB: 9780300174458, Yale University Press, April 2019
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirite...
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Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...
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George Washington The Wonder of the Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...
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Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780300215908, Yale University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an ex...
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Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862
ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images
"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...
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Gerhard Fieseler The Man Behind the Storch
ISBN: HB: 9781911512745, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white photos
The Fieseler Storch is the most famous slow-speed aircraft of the Second World War. A remarkably versatile reconnaissance plane, as well as a Nazi showpiece and diplomatic gift – and even, in post-war British hands, a tool in helicopter design – it w...
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Gabriel Rains and the Confederate Torpedo Bureau
ISBN: PB: 9781611213508, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2017
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 images, 2 maps
"Ironclads are said to master the world, but torpedoes master the ironclads". Gabriel J. Rains was a Confederate Brigadier General who was more than a military officer – he was a scientist. His Civil War appointment gave him an opportunity to develop...
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