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Nature Shock Getting Lost in America
ISBN: HB: 9780300227147, Yale University Press, October 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
The human species has a propensity for getting lost. The American people, inhabiting a mental landscape shaped by their attempts to plant roots and to break free, are no exception. In this engaging book, environmental historian Jon Coleman bypasses t...
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£25,00
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Hidden Mod in Modern Art London, 1957-1969
ISBN: HB: 9781913107130, Yale University Press, October 2020
200 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 140 illus.
Bonding over matters of taste and style, the "Mods" of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits, tidy haircuts, espresso bars, Vespa scooters and the latest American jazz. In this groundbreaking book, lead...
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£25,00
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Survivors Children's Lives After the Holocaust
ISBN: HB: 9780300243321, Yale University Press, August 2020
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Cliffor...
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£20,00
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Overcoming Necessity Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300181616, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers. The Constitution, however, was designed to function under "states of exception", most notably through the s...
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£50,00
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Accursed Tower The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300254808, Yale University Press, August 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 illus.
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...
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£9,99
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Year of Peril America in 1942
ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.
The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...
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£25,00
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Detroit Style Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084, Yale University Press, June 2020
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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£30,00
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People's Revolt Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300100976, Yale University Press, May 2020
592 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 37 black&white illus.
In the years after the Civil War, the banks, railroads, and industrial corporations of Gilded?Age America, abetted by a corrupt political system, concentrated vast wealth in the hands of the few and made poverty the fate of many. In response, a group...
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£30,00
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Henry III 1207-1258
ISBN: HB: 9780300238358, Yale University Press, May 2020
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Nine years of age when he came to the throne in 1216, Henry III had to rule within the limits set by the establishment of Magna Carta and the emergence of parliament. Pacific, conciliatory, and deeply religious, Henry brought many years of peace to E...
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Fiber The Coming Tech Revolution - and Why America Might Miss It
ISBN: PB: 9780300251777, Yale University Press, May 2020
264 pp., 21.6x14 cm
<p>An illuminating vision of the next information revolution, centered on a fiber-optic infrastructure The world of 5G, the next generation of telecommunication technology, will be as different from what came before as the world after the advent of e...
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£15,00
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