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Eternity's Sunrise The Imaginative World of William Blake
ISBN: PB: 9780300223644, Yale University Press, October 2016
344 pp., 22.4x17.1 cm, 40 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.
In this richly illustrated portrait, a prize-winning biographer surveys the entire sweep of William Blake's creative work while telling the story of his life William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers d...
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£14,99
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Collecting Food, Cultivating People Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300218534, Yale University Press, September 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study...
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£60,00
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Green State in Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300215830, Yale University Press, September 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodivers...
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£30,00
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Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France
ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.
In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...
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£55,00
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John Knox
ISBN: PB: 9780300219708, Yale University Press, May 2016
384 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Jane Dawson has written the definitive life of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland. Based in large part on previously unavailable sources, including the recently discovered papers of Knox's close friend and...
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£14,99
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Charand-O Parand Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909
ISBN: HB: 9780300197990, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, t...
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£65,00
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Hubris Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
ISBN: PB: 9780300219494, ISBN: HB: 9780300213546, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswer...
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£12,99
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£18,99
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Eugene O'Neill A Life in Four Acts
ISBN: PB: 9780300219715, Yale University Press, May 2016
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.
This extraordinary new biography fully captures the intimacies of Eugene O'Neill's tumultuous life and the profound impact of his work on American drama. Robert M. Dowling innovatively recounts O'Neill's life in four acts, thus highlighting how the s...
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£16,99
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Dance American Art, 1820-1960
ISBN: HB: 9780300211610, Yale University Press, March 2016
304 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.
As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major...
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£40,00
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Andy Warhol | Ai Weiwei
ISBN: HB: 9780300219357, Yale University Press, January 2016
312 pp., 28x22 cm, 192 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) are two of the most internationally renowned artists of the past 100 years, famous not only for their artwork but also for influencing the culture of their time. This exciting book is the first to consi...
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£45,00
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