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On the Trail A History of American Hiking
ISBN: HB: 9780300219111, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 26 black&white illus.
The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Am...
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£25,00
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House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...
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£70,00
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Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...
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£45,00
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August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...
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£18,99
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Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...
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£60,00
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: PB: 9780300197709, Yale University Press, October 2016
440 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 225 colour illus.
A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. Thes...
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£20,00
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Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...
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£50,00
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Album Picabia
ISBN: PB: 9780300225563, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2016
224 pp., 29.8x22.9 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.
Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951...
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£30,00
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Intelligence in the Flesh Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks
ISBN: PB: 9780300223477, Yale University Press, September 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...
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£12,99
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Citizens' Wealth Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People
ISBN: HB: 9780300218947, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andres Velasco invested budget surpluses from the natio...
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£20,00
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