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America

Little Histories

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Crime of Jean Genet

Dominique Edde

ISBN: HB: 9780857423399, Seagull Books, April 2016
136 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm

Dominique Edde met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence", she writes, "gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated and precise... Genet's movements mimicked...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Joshua 1-12 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Dozeman Thomas B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149753, Yale University Press, July 2015
600 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white maps

An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function, and causes of the religious violence depicted therein. By blending the distin...

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Performing Arts

Polonica

(A)pollonia Twenty-First Century Polish Drama and Texts for the Stage

Duniec Krystyna, Klass Joanna, Krakowska Joanna

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857421784, Seagull Books, February 2014
416 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Questioning the ethics of historical narratives and the construction of national identities, this anthology of Polish plays explores the trauma of war, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and reappraisals of the post-communist reality in Poland. The ele...

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Fiction

The German List

Abolition of Species

Dath Dietmar

ISBN: HB: 9780857420329, Seagull Books, May 2013
552 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently wise Cyrus Golden the Lion rules the three-city state that is now what remains of Europe. Yet, other forces stir while...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Great Expectations

Dickens Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781454901372, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2012
512 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

The bestselling Sterling Classics series continues with Charles Dickens's Great Expectations – one of the most popular novels of all time. When Philip Pirrip, nicknamed Pip, is approached by an escaped convict and forced to steal food and supplies, h...

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History of Art

Masters of Art

Masters of Art Bruegel

Dello Russo William

ISBN: PB: 9783791347400, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Pieter Bruegel makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A Renaissance painter and printmaker best known for his landscapes and peasant scenes, Bruegel's pai...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Timothy H. O'Sullivan The King Survey Photographs

Davis Keith F., Aspinwall Jane Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300179842, Yale University Press, February 2012
260 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 345 colour and black&white illus.

Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swathe of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer – Timothy O'Sullivan – who...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Robinson Crusoe

Defoe Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781402784064, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2011
288 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

At first, Robinson Crusoe finds himself with little hope of survival when he is shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. He begins to write in a journal of his fight to live, recording every incredible step forward and each miserable setback that b...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

African Art as Philosophy Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude

Diagne Souleymane Bachir

ISBN: HB: 9781906497897, Seagull Books, August 2011
252 pp., 18x11 cm

Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001) was a Senegalese poet and philosopher who in 1960 also became the first president of the Republic of Senegal. In "African Art as Philosophy", Souleymane Bachir Diagne takes a unique approach to reading Senghor's infl...

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