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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22.00 GBP
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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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25.00 GBP
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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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22.00 GBP
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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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18.99 GBP
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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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16.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Frederick Douglass Papers, Volume 3, Series 3
Correspondence: 1866-1880
ISBN: HB: 9780300257922,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
696 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
696 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post-Civil War years.
This third volume of Frederick Douglass's Correspondence Series exhibits Douglass at the peak of his political influence. It...
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115.00 GBP
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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 GBP
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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 GBP
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Demetrius
Sacker of Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780300274165,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
224 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
224 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
A portrait of one of the ancient world's first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again.
The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE),...
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10.99 GBP
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Cleopatra
Her History, Her Myth
ISBN: PB: 9780300274158,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256673,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
208 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
208 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy.
The siren passionately in love with Mark Antony, the seductress who allegedly rolled out of a carpet she had herself smuggled in to...
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10.99 GBP
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18.99 GBP
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