Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
224 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,0x14,6 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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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Women and the Piano
A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: HB: 9780300266573,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano – but how many women pianists can you name?
Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Ev...
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Ashoka
Portrait of a Philosopher King
ISBN: HB: 9780300270006,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
408 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 19 colour and black&white illus.
408 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 19 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history.
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-ce...
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John Lewis
In Search of the Beloved Community
ISBN: HB: 9780300253757,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
588 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 17 black&white illus.
588 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 17 black&white illus.
The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned...
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Vagabond Princess
The Great Adventures of Gulbadan
ISBN: HB: 9780300251272,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 15 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 15 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
A captivating biography of one of the world's greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir.
Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gu...
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When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black
ISBN: HB: 9780300270976,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 60 black&white illus.
The lost memoir of Britain's first Black Olympic medal winner – and the America he discovered.
After winning Olympic medals for Britain in 1920, Harry Edward (1898-1973) decided to try his luck in America. The country he found was full of thrilling...
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Prison Diaries
The Rebel Who Founded a Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781787383999,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
An unflinching account of life in a Pakistani prison by a founding leader and the first elected prime minister of Bangladesh.
Born in 1920, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman studied law. One of the founders of the Awami League in 1949, he...
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Saffron "Modernity" in India
Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295,
Hurst Publishers,
February 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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Adventurer
The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
ISBN: PB: 9780300271027,
ISBN: HB: 9780300248289,
Yale University Press,
December 2023
448 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 34 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 34 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
A fast-paced narrative about the world-famous libertine Giacomo Casanova, from celebrated biographer Leo Damrosch.
Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was a storied adventurer through the Enlightenment's shadowy underside. Known as a serial seducer, he wa...
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