art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Why We Believe
Evolution and the Human Way of Being
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
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£20,00
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Wandering Spirits
Loneliness and Longing in Greenland
ISBN: PB: 9780226610566,
ISBN: HB: 9780226610429,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
It is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world – a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In "Wandering Spirits", Flora reveals how deeply connec...
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£21,00
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£62,00
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Water Mask
ISBN: PB: 9781602233720,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
March 2019
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
175 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Water Mask" is an adventurous memoir from Monica Devine, an itinerant therapist who travels to villages throughout Alaska and builds a life in this vast, captivating landscape. She traverses mountains, navigates sea ice with whalers, and whirls two...
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£13,00
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Wake of the Whale
Hunter Societies in the Caribbean and North Atlantic
ISBN: HB: 9780674986374,
Harvard University Press,
October 2018
352 pp., 23.5x16.2 cm, 51 photos, 3 maps, 2 illus., 4 tables
352 pp., 23.5x16.2 cm, 51 photos, 3 maps, 2 illus., 4 tables
Despite declining stocks worldwide and increasing health risks, artisanal whaling remains a cultural practice tied to nature's rhythms. "The Wake of the Whale" presents the art, history, and challenge of whaling in the Caribbean and North Atlantic, b...
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£22,95
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Where Are We Heading?
The Evolution of Humans and Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300204094,
Yale University Press,
October 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural sel...
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£20,00
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Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780300238679,
ISBN: HB: 9780300229042,
Yale University Press,
September 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient world to the early-...
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£11,99
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£25,00
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Waka and Things, Waka as Things
ISBN: HB: 9780300223712,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 colour illus., 29 black&white illus.
This generously illustrated volume offers a fresh perspective on classical Japanese poetry (waka), including many poems treated here for the first time in a Western-language publication. Edward Kamens examines these poems both as they relate to mater...
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£60,00
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Worldviews of the Greenlanders
An Inuit Arctic Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9781602233386,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Alaska Press,
February 2018
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
1150 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 29 halftones, 1 map
Ninety years ago, Knud Rasmussen's popular account of his scientific expeditions through Greenland and North America introduced readers to the culture and history of arctic Natives. In the intervening century, a robust field of ethnographic research...
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£49,00
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World in Guangzhou
Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace
ISBN: PB: 9780226506104,
ISBN: HB: 9780226506074,
University of Chicago Press,
February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...
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£20,50
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£64,00
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Ways of Baloma
Rethinking Magic and Kinship From the Trobriands
ISBN: PB: 9780997367560,
University of Chicago Press,
HAU,
November 2017
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
390 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 4 line drawings
Bronislaw Malinowski's path-breaking research in the Trobriand Islands shaped much of modern anthropology's disciplinary paradigm. Yet many conundrums remain. For example, Malinowski asserted that baloma spirits of the dead were responsible for procr...
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£30,00
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