Sandpiper
The Journals of Elizabeth Bishop
ISBN: PB: 9781800173514,
Carcanet,
August 2026
280 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
This is a fascinating window giving on the private thoughts of one of the great American writers of the twentieth century. It follows on Carcanet's publication of "Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments", edited by...
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Nighttime Butterfly
A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839,
Yale University Press,
September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism.
When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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Joseph Smith
The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9780300255164,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder.
Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishin...
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Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
ISBN: HB: 9780300278385,
Yale University Press,
August 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic.
Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calam...
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Franz Boas
In Praise of Open Minds
ISBN: HB: 9780300241235,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology.
Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studie...
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Letters of Frank Loesser
ISBN: HB: 9780300250749,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
576 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The first collected correspondence of one of America's greatest songwriters – revealing a fascinating life and lasting influence.
Frank Loesser was one of the most versatile and influential figures of the Golden Age of Broadway, most famous for "Gu...
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Chitto Harjo
Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way
ISBN: HB: 9780300272413,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
How a Mvskoke traditionalist leader forged a movement to resist the division of tribal lands and keep his people on the everlasting Medicine Way.
Chitto Harjo ("Crazy Snake") had several names – Wilson Jones, Bill Jones, Bill Harjo, Bill Snake – an...
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Free Radicals
How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300282610,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide.
At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic exp...
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Stalin's Library
A Dictator and his Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300281132,
ISBN: HB: 9780300179040,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library.
In this engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what th...
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Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: PB: 9780300281804,
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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