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Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space
ISBN: HB: 9780300206517, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight. The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her c...
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£30,00
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Encounters: Student Book 3 Chinese Language and Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300161649, Yale University Press, August 2017
272 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 180 colour illus.
Designed for English-speaking students ready to embark on the adventure of learning Mandarin Chinese, "Encounters" accelerates proficiency and cultural understanding through authentic language and cultural experiences. This fully integrated program i...
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£55,00
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Mapping the Heavens The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
ISBN: PB: 9780300227031, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at...
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£11,99
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Pietro Bembo and the Intellectual Pleasures of a Renaissance Writer and Art Collector
ISBN: HB: 9780300219197, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for his incredible collection of art and antiquities. Drawing on anecdotes from Bembo's letters and unpubli...
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£50,00
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Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine
ISBN: PB: 9780300227048, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm
Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtfu...
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£12,99
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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...
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£35,00
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Roberto Burle Marx Brazilian Modernist
ISBN: HB: 9780300212150, Yale University Press, June 2016
224 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 185 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2000 gardens worldwide, th...
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£40,00
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Architecture and Empire in Jamaica
ISBN: HB: 9780300211009, Yale University Press, March 2016
324 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 52 colour illus., 198 black&white illus.
Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly...
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£65,00
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Serial Black Face
ISBN: PB: 9780300211375, Yale University Press, November 2015
128 pp., 22.9x14 cm
The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars wit...
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£14,00
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Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...
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£43,00
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