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The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine

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The Healthy Jew traces the culturally revealing story of how Moses, the rabbis, and other Jewish thinkers came to be understood as medical authorities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC

Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]

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In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe

Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]

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From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
The Diary of a Secret Royal

The Diary of a Secret Royal

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The most scandalous Royal book of the year In a rapidly changing world the Royal Family own swathes of the country, most of the seabed and more money than anyone...
Teddy

Teddy

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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
The Paris Gown: A Novel

The Paris Gown: A Novel

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Author: Christine WellsFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 229mm, 406g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 "A glorious showstopper of a novel! With its glittering characters, intricately woven plot and...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

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Author: The Africa InstituteFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 980g, 246 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2022For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in...
Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

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Author: David ZwirnerFormat: Hardback, 217mm x 314mm, 1010g, 112 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2016Up to his untimely death in 2006 at age 41, Jason Rhoades carried out a continuous...
Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

Tomas Esson: THE GOAT

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Author: Gean MorenFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 1400g, 296 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Tomas Esson: The GOAT is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomas Esson. It features paintings created...
Deanna Bowen

Deanna Bowen

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Author: Crystal MowryFormat: Hardback, 248mm x 305mm, 1700g, 234 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2022This black-on-black book brings together over 20 years of Deanna Bowen's commitment to the excavation and recontextualization...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection

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Author: Alessandra NappoFormat: Paperback, 210mm x 270mm, 840g, 184 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the...
Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

Humankind: Ruskin Spear: Class, culture and art in 20th-century Britain

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Author: Tanya HarrodFormat: Hardback, 185mm x 245mm, 1340g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022Humankind: Ruskin Spear is the first book on the painter Ruskin Spear RA (1911-1990)...
Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

Close Up (German edition): Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Lotte Laserstein, Frida Kahlo, Alice Neel, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton

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Author: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/BaselFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 260mm, 1180g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2021The portrait offers the possibility of observation and introspection, and is at the same time one...
Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

Gerhard Richter - Brigid Polk: Koenigsklasse III

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Author: Sabine KnustFormat: Paperback, 197mm x 260mm, 450g, 96 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2015In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
Philip Guston

Philip Guston

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Author: Musa Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and...