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Biography & Memoires

Ghost Image

Guibert Herve

ISBN: PB: 9780226132341, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
160 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm

"Ghost Image" is made up of sixty-three short essays – meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems – and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthe...

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Literary Criticism

Great Charles Dickens Scandal

Slater Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205282, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actres...

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Grains of Gold Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

Chopel Gendun

ISBN: HB: 9780226091976, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 74 line drawings

In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-1951) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native lan...

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Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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Military

Geronimo

Utley Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198362, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 maps, 17 black&white illus.

Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache warrior Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion...

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Jewish Studies

Germany's Prophet Paul de Lagarde and the Origins of Modern Antisemitism

Sieg Ulrich

ISBN: HB: 9781584657552, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recognized in his own time and also today as a leading scholar of the origins and development of the Septuagint and its sources, Paul de Lagarde (1827-1891) was a vituperative German nationalist and an antisemite whose writings inspired the National...

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Gustav Mahler

Fischer Jens Malte, Spencer Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780300194111, Yale University Press, April 2013
766 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources – some unavailable to previous biographers – and sets in narrative cont...

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Gaining Daylight Life on Two Islands

Loewen Sara

ISBN: PB: 9781602231986, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2013
140 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 20 halftones

For many the idea of living off the land is a romantic notion left to stories of olden days or wistful dreams at the office. But for Sara Loewen it becomes her way of life each summer as her family settles into their remote cabin on Uyak Bay for the...

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George II King and Elector

Thompson Andrew C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187779, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in British and German archives, making possibl...

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Gainsbourg The Biography

Verlant Gilles

ISBN: PB: 9780966234671, DAP, TamTam Books, July 2012
400 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Not for sale in Estonia! When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: Francois Mitterand himself proclaimed him "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire". Gainsbourg redefined French pop, from his beginnings as cynical chansonnier and mam...

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