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Law and the Unconscious A Psychoanalytic Perspective
ISBN: HB: 9780300188837, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
How can psychoanalysis help us understand irrational actions and bad choices? Our legal system relies on the idea that people act reasonably and of their own free will, yet some still commit crimes with a high likelihood of being caught, sign obvious...
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£37,00
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Our Senses Gateways to Conciousness
ISBN: HB: 9780300230192, Yale University Press, February 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 46 black&white illus.
Over the past decade neuroscience has uncovered a wealth of new information about our senses and how they serve as our gateway to the world. This splendidly accessible book explores the most intriguing findings of this research. With infectious enthu...
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£25,00
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Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...
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£16,99
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Truth 24 Frames Per Second
ISBN: PB: 9780300233056, Yale University Press, January 2018
208 pp., 20x15.9 cm, 86 colour illus., 36 black&white illus.
Offering historical, social, and artistic context for some of the most influential artists and filmmakers from the 1960s to the present day, this timely book looks at three filmic techniques – appropriation, documentary film, and montage – and how th...
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Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection
ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...
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Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded
ISBN: HB: 9780300214949, Yale University Press, November 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 colour illus.
In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikec shows how these revo...
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£9,99
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Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of the Monotypes
ISBN: HB: 9780300229370, Yale University Press, October 2017
332 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 242 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history of postwar art. With extensive new scholarship based on original research and interviews with the artist, "Jasper Johns: Catalogue Ra...
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£120,00
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Question of Intervention John Stuart Mill and the Responsibility to Protect
ISBN: PB: 9780300230604, Yale University Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
The question of when or if a nation should intervene in another country's affairs is one of the most important concerns in today's volatile world. Taking John Stuart Mill's famous 1859 essay "A Few Words on Non-Intervention" as his starting point, in...
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In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps
The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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