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Atlas of AI
ISBN: HB: 9780300209570, Yale University Press, March 2021
288 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...
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£20,00
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Causal Inference The Mixtape
ISBN: PB: 9780300251685, Yale University Press, March 2021
584 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Causal inference encompasses the tools that allow social scientists to determine what causes what. Economists – who generally can't run controlled experiments to test and validate their hypotheses – apply these tools to observational data to make con...
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£25,00
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Global Indies British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815
ISBN: HB: 9780300239973, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
In this lively book, Ashley Cohen reveals how eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire – not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected "Indies". Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, an...
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North African Poetry in French Yale French Studies, Number 137/138
ISBN: PB: 9780300250374, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of "Yale French Studies" sho...
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Bonds of Womanhood "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
ISBN: PB: 9780300254082, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers.
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£14,99
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Hector Zamora: Lattice Detour The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396891, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2021
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 50 colour illus.
Mexican artist Hector Zamora (b. 1974) engages with public spaces and the manmade environment, using his work to draw attention to architecture's connections to community and social structure. This compact volume presents images and analyses of Zamor...
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£7,95
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What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues
ISBN: PB: 9780300255218, ISBN: HB: 9780300231939, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course of several hundred years and contains contradictory po...
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£14,99
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£22,00
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French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums
ISBN: HB: 9780300250916, Yale University Press, November 2020
400 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 350 colour and black&white illus.
The Harvard Art Museums house one of the most significant collections of works on paper in North America. Among its many strengths are sheets by draftsmen of the French School, including notable masters such as Simon Vouet, Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Po...
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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...
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£30,00
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Joseph Wright of Derby Painter of Darkness
ISBN: HB: 9781913107123, Yale University Press, November 2020
368 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 195 illus.
Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of...
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£45,00
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