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Broken Bargain Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
ISBN: HB: 9780300223323, Yale University Press, February 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the 1930s, battered and humbled by the Great Depression, the U.S. financial sector struck a grand bargain with the federal government. Bankers gained a safety net in exchange for certain curbs on their freedom: transparency rules, record-keeping a...
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£25,00
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Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask
ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.
Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...
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Lina Bo Bardi
ISBN: PB: 9780300244229, Yale University Press, February 2019
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 81 colour illus., 95 black&white illus.
One of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) was remarkably prolific and intriguingly idiosyncratic. A participant in the efforts to reshape Italian culture in her youth, Bo Bardi immigrated to Brazil in 19...
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Seeing Trees A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
ISBN: HB: 9780300225785, Yale University Press, February 2019
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dumpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dumpelmann shows how New York City a...
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£35,00
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Photographs of Ralston Crawford
ISBN: HB: 9780300241365, Yale University Press, January 2019
204 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 18 colour illus., 148 black&white illus.
Best known for his modernist paintings and prints, the multitalented artist Ralston Crawford (1906-1978) maintained a deep and intensive interest in photography throughout his career, using the camera as a tool of both documentary and artistic expres...
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£45,00
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 39 Giovanni Bellini's Painting Technique
ISBN: PB: 9781857096408, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2018
136 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) was one of the most innovative and influential painters of the Venetian Renaissance and was among the first Italian artists to paint in oil, rather than the more traditional medium of egg tempera. This spe...
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£40,00
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Playful Entrepreneur How to Adapt and Thrive in Uncertain Times
ISBN: HB: 9780300233926, Yale University Press, October 2018
280 pp., 21.6x14 cm
How can we learn to deal with uncertainty at work? The answer, as Dodgson and Gann eloquently portray in this pathfinding book, is to learn from the adaptive behaviors of entrepreneurs. Play, the authors show, is a crucial component of this. It encou...
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£18,99
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Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.
This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...
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£15,00
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Rosas 2007-2017
ISBN: HB: 9780300236873, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
256 pp., 33.5x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) is a renowned Belgian choreographer who over nearly four decades has created a legendary and internationally lauded oeuvre, a continuous exploration of the relationship between dance and music that borrows formal...
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£45,00
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Sophie Podolski Le pays ou tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
ISBN: PB: 9780300241266, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2018
144 pp., 27x18.7 cm, 129 colour illus., 9 black&white illus.
This bilingual publication offers an unprecedented exploration of the work of Belgian poet and artist Sophie Podolski (1953-1974), who has lingered in obscurity since her untimely death at the age of 21. Podolski's work is emblematic of a time marked...
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£22,00
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