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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
ISBN: PB: 9780300198782, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late...
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£35,00
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Income Inequality Why it Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice
ISBN: HB: 9780300209587, Yale University Press, November 2015
168 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan disc...
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£40,00
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Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.
Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...
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Corita Kent and the Language of Pop
ISBN: PB: 9780300214710, Yale University Press, September 2015
338 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 270 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
Known widely as a Catholic nun with an avant-garde flair, Corita Kent (1918-1986) has a personal legacy that has tended to overshadow her extensive career as an artist. This handsomely illustrated catalogue places Kent in her rightful position among...
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Rafael Moneo Building, Teaching, Writing
ISBN: HB: 9780300139129, Yale University Press, September 2015
308 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo (b. 1937) has won numerous awards (including the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize), yet this publication is the first to offer a critical study of his career as a whole-not only his many built works and proje...
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£30,00
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Heroic Slave A Cultural and Critical Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300184624, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, "The Heroic Slave" is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washing...
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£7,99
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Duke's Assassin Exile and Death of Lorenzino De' Medici
ISBN: HB: 9780300189780, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murderin...
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£49,00
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Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...
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Fatal Land War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
ISBN: HB: 9780300196726, Yale University Press, August 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain's colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the myt...
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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300208931, Yale University Press, July 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun ri...
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£25,00
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