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Lusitania The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
ISBN: HB: 9780300221381, Yale University Press, September 2016
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 black&white illus.
A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people...
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£18,99
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Little Review "Ulysses"
ISBN: PB: 9780300181777, Yale University Press, July 2016
480 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 26 black&white, 26 colour illus.
James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed...
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£19,99
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Birders of Africa History of a Network
ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...
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£45,00
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Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices
ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.
Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...
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£34,00
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Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19 Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends
ISBN: HB: 9780300210958, Yale University Press, May 2016
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm
Well before publishing the "Lives of the Poets", Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confuci...
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£95,00
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Legal Codes and Talking Trees Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946
ISBN: HB: 9780300211689, Yale University Press, April 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In m...
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£25,00
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Myth, Memory, Trauma Rethinking the Stalinist Past in the Soviet Union, 1953-70
ISBN: PB: 9780300219777, ISBN: HB: 9780300185126, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and...
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£12,99
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£44,00
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Hamlet Fold on Fold
ISBN: HB: 9780300218329, Yale University Press, March 2016
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm
William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive-very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in thi...
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£20,00
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Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple
ISBN: HB: 9780300169126, Yale University Press, November 2015
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 97 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.
The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converte...
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£55,00
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Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth
ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...
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£9,99
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