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Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.
In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...
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£22,00
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£50,00
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City Beneath A Century of Los Angeles Graffiti
ISBN: HB: 9780300246032, Yale University Press, November 2019
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 139 colour illus., 56 black&white illus.
Graffiti written in storm drain tunnels, on neighborhood walls, and under bridges tells an underground and, until now, untold history of Los Angeles. Drawing on extensive research within the city's urban landscape, Susan A. Phillips traces the hidden...
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£40,00
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Polygamy An Early American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300226843, Yale University Press, October 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities,...
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£30,00
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Michelangelo Mind of the Master
ISBN: HB: 9780300246865, Yale University Press, October 2019
232 pp., 30.2x27.3 cm, 144 colour images
The works of Michelangelo (1475-1564) remain an enduring source of awe and fascination more than 500 years after his death. "Michelangelo: Mind of the Master" offers a new context for understanding the drawings of one of art's greatest visionaries. T...
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£35,00
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Britain and Islam A History from 622 to the Present Day
ISBN: HB: 9780300234947, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.
In this broad yet sympathetic survey – ranging from the Crusades to the modern day – Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultural encounters between Britain and Islam. He looks, for instance, at how reactions against the Crusades led to A...
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£25,00
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Country House Library
ISBN: PB: 9780300248685, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete...
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£25,00
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European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...
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Edvard Munch Behind the Scream
ISBN: PB: 9780300250008, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 129 black&white illus., 22 colour illus., 3 maps
Who was the man behind "The Scream", the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked on a lifelong effort to paint his 'soul's diary' – and began a perver...
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£14,99
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Hertfordshire Buildings of England (New Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780300223903, Yale University Press, March 2019
804 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.
This fully revised and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Hertfordshire is an eye-opening introduction to the wealth of fine buildings that can be found right on London's doorstep. Hertfordshire is one of the smallest English counties, largely r...
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£60,00
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Bouguereau and America
ISBN: HB: 9780300241358, Yale University Press, February 2019
192 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 114 colour illus.
Seeking to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance into their galleries and drawing rooms, wealthy Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collected the work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) in record numbers. This fasci...
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