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House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
ISBN: PB: 9780300226928, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.
This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the wo...
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£16,99
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Graveyard Clay Cre Na Cille
ISBN: PB: 9780300227062, Yale University Press, May 2017
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 6 black&white
In critical opinion and popular polls, Mairtin O. Cadhain's Graveyard Clay is invariably ranked the most important prose work in modern Irish. This bold new translation of his radically original Cre na Cille is the shared project of two fluent speake...
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£10,99
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Making Magnificence Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior
ISBN: HB: 9780300225778, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, who took their prodigious skills as specialist decorative plasterworkers throughout Northern Europe in the 18th century, adorning classical architecture...
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Gift of the Gab How Eloquence Works
ISBN: PB: 9780300226409, ISBN: HB: 9780300214260, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.
We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insigh...
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£14,99
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Black Wind, White Snow The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism
ISBN: PB: 9780300226454, ISBN: HB: 9780300120707, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism", a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism's origins in t...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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Marsden Hartley's Maine
ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.
Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...
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£38,00
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Closing the Courthouse Door How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable
ISBN: HB: 9780300211580, Yale University Press, March 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A leading legal scholar explores how the constitutional right to seek justice has been restricted by the Supreme Court The Supreme Court's decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend tho...
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£25,00
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Blood, Dreams and Gold The Changing Face of Burma
ISBN: PB: 9780300225976, ISBN: HB: 9780300204513, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country eventually ended up as one of the poorest countries in Asia, a byword for repression and ethnic violence....
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Voynich Manuscript
ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.
The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...
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£35,00
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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)
ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...
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£135,00
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