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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Modern Sovereign
The Body of Power in Central Africa (Congo and Gabon)
ISBN: HB: 9780857426888,
Seagull Books,
March 2021
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The "Modern Sovereign", a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. It is an internalized power, res...
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£35,00
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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
ISBN: HB: 9780300246292,
Yale University Press,
January 2021
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
In the early medieval West, from North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture. In this fascinating book, Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and tra...
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£30,00
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Lakota America
A New History of Indigenous Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300255256,
ISBN: HB: 9780300215953,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...
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£16,99
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£25,00
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Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780913516317,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
224 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 148 black&white illus.
224 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 148 black&white illus.
This volume presents a new look at prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, from the Preceramic to the Late Intermediate Period. Though the political climate precluded investigations in this area after the 1960s, Matsumoto i...
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£25,00
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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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£20,00
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Daemons are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
ISBN: PB: 9780226714905,
ISBN: HB: 9780226692401,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 38 halftones
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, "Daemons Are Forever" is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings – daemons – and an account of exc...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Surviving the Americas
Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City
ISBN: PB: 9781947602113,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
June 2020
145 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
145 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Surviving the Americas" is an intersectional analysis of Garifuna communities in the Americas, with an emphasis on those in Nicaragua and the United States. Serena Cosgrove and Jose Idiaquez provide a platform for the voices of indigenous peoples th...
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£24,00
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Excavating the Memory Palace
Arts of Visualization from the Agora to the Computer
ISBN: PB: 9780226695280,
ISBN: HB: 9780226695143,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 12 line drawings
With the prevalence of smartphones, massive data storage, and search engines, we might think of today as the height of the information age. In reality, every era has faced its own challenges of storing, organizing, and accessing information. While th...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Brief Natural History of Civilization
Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
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£20,00
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Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown
ISBN: PB: 9780226698670,
ISBN: HB: 9780226684581,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
192 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 5 halftones
For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks what function a newly invigorated mimetic faculty migh...
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£20,00
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£60,00
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