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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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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Horn
ISBN: HB: 9780300118933,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
480 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
480 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 50 black&white illus.
A rich and fascinating account of one of music history's most ancient, varied, and distinctive instruments.
From its origins in animal horn instruments in classical antiquity to the emergence of the modern horn in the seventeenth century, the horn...
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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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Crassus
The First Tycoon
ISBN: PB: 9780300274172,
ISBN: HB: 9780300256604,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
184 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
184 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 map
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory.
Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last...
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Julian
Rome's Last Pagan Emperor
ISBN: HB: 9780300256642,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
168 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman.
Flavius Claudius Julianus, or Julian the Apostate, ruled Rome as sole emperor for just a year and a half, from 361 to 363, but during that ti...
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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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Vergil
The Poet's Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300256611,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A biography of Vergil, Rome's greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid.
The "Aeneid" stands as a towering work of Classical Roman literature and a gripping dramatization of the best and worst of human nature. In the process of creat...
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Ezra
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300149692,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
504 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
504 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A new translation and commentary on the biblical book of Ezra by the renowned author of two award-winning biblical commentaries.
The book of Ezra is a remarkable testament to a nation's ability to survive and develop a distinctive identity under im...
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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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