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Good Italy, Bad Italy Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300197167, Yale University Press, April 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
Once Italy was Europe's own emerging economy, a society that blended dynamism and super-fast growth with a lifestyle that was the envy of all. Now it is a major threat to the future of the Euro, and of the European Union as a whole, as a political sy...
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£12,99
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Distant Intimacy A Friendship in the Age of the Internet
ISBN: HB: 9780300186949, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever transacted via the Internet. Also unusual, at least for correspondents in the twenty-first centur...
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£20,00
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Field Guide to the Ants of New England
ISBN: PB: 9780300169300, Yale University Press, September 2012
352 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 310 colour images, 350 black&white illus.
This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants – the "little things that run the world". Lavishly illustrated with over 500 line illustrations, 300 photographs, and regional distribution maps for every species, this guide will in...
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£30,00
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History in the Making
ISBN: HB: 9780300186383, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the...
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£17,50
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Ending Wars Well Order, Justice and Conciliation in Contemporary Post-Conflict
ISBN: HB: 9780300171136, Yale University Press, June 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Though scholars of political science and moral philosophy have long analyzed the justifications for and against waging war as well as the ethics of warfare itself, the problem of ending wars has received less attention. In the first book to apply jus...
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£42,00
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Walter De Maria Trilogies
ISBN: HB: 9780300175783, Yale University Press, March 2012
104 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 61 colour illus.
Walter De Maria (b. 1935) is known for the expansive and perfectly ordered land art and installations he created in the 1970s. From constructing minimalist spare wooden boxes to using the earth itself as a site for, and element of, his sculpture, his...
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£35,00
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Cuban Fiestas
ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.
In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...
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£16,99
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£30,00
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Pushkin's Historical Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300181906, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.
This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writi...
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£25,00
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Matisse Radical Invention, 1913-1917
ISBN: PB: 9780300177244, Yale University Press, July 2011
368 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 515 colour images, 138 black&white illus.
The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colours black and grey, these compositions are rigo...
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£35,00
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Tony Cragg Sculptures and Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300178982, Yale University Press, July 2011
100 pp., 30x24 cm, 90 colour illus.
Born in 1949, Tony Cragg is one of today's most celebrated and popular sculptors. Before studying art he worked as a laboratory technician, which has had an enormous influence on his practice. His work fuses art and science in a rich and arresting wa...
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£25,00
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