art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Second Careers
Two Tributaries in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300246872,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...
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£20,00
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Signs of the Americas
A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
ISBN: PB: 9780226659022,
ISBN: HB: 9780226658971,
University of Chicago Press,
November 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 31 halftones
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in "Signs of the Americas". Rather than be...
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£24,00
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£68,00
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Stop Mugging Grandma
The "Generation Wars" and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything
ISBN: HB: 9780300236835,
Yale University Press,
August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their el...
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£18,99
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Selfish Ape
Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction
ISBN: HB: 9781789141559,
Reaktion Books,
July 2019
152 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
152 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Weaving together stories of science and sociology, "The Selfish Ape" offers a refreshing response to common fantasies about the ascent of humanity. Rather than imagining modern humans as a species with godlike powers, or Homo deus, Nicholas P. Money...
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£14,99
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Sami Peoples of the North
A Social and Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781787380318,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2018
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countr...
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£18,99
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Still Points
ISBN: HB: 9780873658706,
Harvard University Press,
October 2018
112 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 53 colour illus., 21 halftones
112 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 53 colour illus., 21 halftones
"Still Points" is a collection of remarkable and evocative still photographs taken by award-winning nonfiction filmmaker and author Robert Gardner during his anthropological and filming expeditions around the world. Thousands of his original photogra...
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£40,95
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Smoke, Flames, and the Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual Practice
ISBN: HB: 9780884024262,
Harvard University Press,
July 2018
480 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 22 colour illus., 170 halftones, 47 line illus., 3 maps, 7 tables
480 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 22 colour illus., 170 halftones, 47 line illus., 3 maps, 7 tables
Epitomizing the radiating sun and perpetuating the cycles of life and time, fire was – and continues to be – a central force in the Mesoamerican cosmos. Mesoamericans understood heat and flames as animate forces that signified strength and vitality;...
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£60,95
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Stories of Capitalism
Inside the Role of Financial Analysts
ISBN: PB: 9780226523422,
ISBN: HB: 9780226523392,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2018
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 line drawings, 5 tables
The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to for...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Signs from Silence
Ur of the First Sumerians
ISBN: PB: 9788024631301,
University of Chicago Press,
Karolinum Press,
August 2017
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts
350 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 6 halftones, 148 line drawings, 15 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic!
The Royal Tombs of Ur, dating from approximately 3000-2700 BCE, are among the most famous and impressive archeological discoveries of the twentieth century. Excavated between 1922 and 1934...
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£30,00
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Shem Pete's Alaska
The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina
ISBN: PB: 9781602233065,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
July 2017
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps
432 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 27 colour plates, 324 halftones, 66 maps
Shem Pete (1896-1989), a colorful and brilliant raconteur from Susitna Station, Alaska, left a rich legacy of knowledge about the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina world. Shem was one of the most versatile storytellers and historians in twentieth century Ala...
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£30,00
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