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Reclaiming the Petition Clause Seditious Libel, "Offensive" Protest, and the Right to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances
ISBN: HB: 9780300149876, Yale University Press, May 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Since the 2004 presidential campaign, when the Bush team prevented anyone who seemed unsympathetic to their candidate from attending his ostensibly public appearances, it has become commonplace for security forces to classify ordinary expressions of...
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£38,00
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Psychology's Ghosts The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
ISBN: HB: 9780300178685, Yale University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 21x14 cm
This book is the product of long thought and profound concern about the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a brilliant thinker and leading researcher in the field, examines current popular practices and assumptions among psychologists. H...
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£54,00
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Gift Tradition in Islamic Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300184358, Yale University Press, April 2012
160 pp., 27x24 cm, 70 colour illus.
The offering of gifts – state, religious and personal – is a practice nearly as ancient and widespread as human culture itself. At courts throughout the Islamic world, the exchange of lavish gifts intimately linked art with diplomacy, religion and pe...
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£25,00
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Remembering Shakespeare
ISBN: PB: 9780300180398, Yale University Press, March 2012
80 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 72 colour illus.
In this richly illustrated book, David Scott Kastan and Kathryn James explore Yale University's extraordinary collection of works by or relating to William Shakespeare. They chart the winding course by which the playwright has been remembered, often...
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£18,99
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Learn to Read Greek, Part 2 Textbook & Workbook
ISBN: PB: 9780300167726, Yale University Press, March 2012
1344 pp., 25x15 cm
"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is in...
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£50,00
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Learn to Read Greek, Part 2 Textbook
ISBN: PB: 9780300115901, Yale University Press, March 2012
640 pp., 25x15 cm
"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is in...
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£35,00
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Learn to Read Greek, Part 2 Workbook
ISBN: PB: 9780300115925, Yale University Press, March 2012
704 pp., 25x15 cm
"Learn to Read Greek" is a text and workbook for students beginning the study of Ancient Greek. It is the companion volume to the authors' "Learn to Read Latin", published in 2004. Like its Latin predecessor, it has a grammar-based approach and is in...
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£24,00
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End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300175196, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. Donald Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle assert that racism was in fact an important factor...
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£26,00
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King Stephen
ISBN: PB: 9780300181951, Yale University Press, February 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Ed...
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£19,99
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Shapeshifting Transformations in Native American Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300177329, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 144 colour images, 16 black&white illus.
Public perception of Native American art and culture has often been derived from misunderstandings and misinterpretations, and from images promulgated by popular culture. Typically, Native Americans are grouped as a whole and their art and culture co...
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£60,00
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