Herod the Great
Jewish King in a Roman World
ISBN: HB: 9780300228410,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution.
Herod the Great (73-4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Rom...
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£16.99
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Arthur Miller
American Witness
ISBN: PB: 9780300276794,
ISBN: HB: 9780300234923,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights.
Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the p...
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£12.99
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£16.99
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Henrietta Szold
Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300247787,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer.
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ame...
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£16.99
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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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£16.99
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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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£16.99
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Amos Oz
Writer, Activist, Icon
ISBN: HB: 9780300250176,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
200 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist.
Amos Oz (1939-2018) was one of Israel's most prolific and prominent writers, as well as a regular contender for the Nobel Prize for Liter...
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£16.99
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Betty Friedan
Magnificent Disrupter
ISBN: HB: 9780300220025,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
384 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
384 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A new portrait of Betty Friedan, the author and activist acclaimed as the mother of second-wave feminism.
The feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan (1921-2006), pathbreaking author of "The Feminine Mystique", was powerful and polarizing. In th...
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£18.99
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Golda Meir
Israel's Matriarch
ISBN: HB: 9780300253511,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt.
Golda Meir (1898-1978) was the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel. She was born in Kiev into a childhood of...
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£16.99
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Elie Wiesel
Confronting the Silence
ISBN: HB: 9780300228984,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
360 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) became a torchbearer for victims and survivors of the Ho...
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£20.00
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Maimonides
Faith in Reason
ISBN: HB: 9780300217896,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of "The Guide of the Perplexed", from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles.
Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain...
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