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World Safe for Democracy Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300230987, Yale University Press, November 2020
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal c...
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Power on the Precipice The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World
ISBN: HB: 9780300243505, Yale University Press, October 2020
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Is America fated to decline as a great power? Can it recover? With absorbing insight and fresh perspective, foreign policy expert Andrew Imbrie provides a road map for bolstering American leadership in an era of turbulence abroad and deepening polari...
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Levant Express The Arab Uprisings, Human Rights, and the Future of the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9780300215694, Yale University Press, October 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.
The enormous sense of optimism unleashed by the Arab Spring in 2011 soon gave way to widespread suffering and despair. Of the many popular uprisings against autocratic regimes, Tunisia's now stands alone as a beacon of hope for sustainable human righ...
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African Americans and Africa A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300198669, Yale University Press, July 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
What is an "African American" and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States' first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This work p...
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£18,99
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Public Parks, Private Gardens Paris to Provence
ISBN: HB: 9781588395849, Yale University Press, March 2018
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era's great Impressionist artists. The renewed landscape gave crowded, displaced urban...
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£40,00
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Max Eastman A Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300222562, Yale University Press, August 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.
The definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual. Max Eastman (1883-1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Chri...
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£35,00
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Dreamlands Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016
ISBN: HB: 9780300221879, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and arti...
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£45,00
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Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300220148, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
500 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have b...
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Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.
Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...
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Fatal Flaws How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain
ISBN: HB: 9780300189896, Yale University Press, April 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. They challenge...
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£51,00
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