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Safe Enough Spaces A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
ISBN: HB: 9780300234855, Yale University Press, October 2019
160 pp., 21x14 cm
n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...
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£18,99
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Sparta's First Attic War The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.
ISBN: HB: 9780300242614, Yale University Press, September 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest empire in human history. For the decade and a half that followed, they continued their collaboration until a rift o...
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£25,00
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Einstein on the Run How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist
ISBN: HB: 9780300234763, Yale University Press, September 2019
376 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.
In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon h...
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£16,99
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Kremlin Letters Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt
ISBN: PB: 9780300247657, ISBN: HB: 9780300226829, Yale University Press, August 2019
680 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 3 maps
Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume – the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration – the messages are published and also ana...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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Art Lover's Guide to Japanese Museums
ISBN: PB: 9780956800770, Yale University Press, August 2019
272 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 330 colour illus.
"The Art Lover's Guide to Japanese Museums" is a personal introduction to more than 100 of Japan's most distinctive and inspiring museums. In-depth information is given about each venue, including about its creation, collection, and highlights. Organ...
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£24,95
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Behind the Screen Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300235883, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, over 100,000 commercial content mo...
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£20,00
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Awaken A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment
ISBN: PB: 9780300244656, Yale University Press, July 2019
252 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 230 colour and black&white illus.
Encouraging personal engagement with Tibetan Buddhism, this dynamic book presents spectacular Himalayan art and explores the philosophical tenets encoded in its imagery. Taking as its theme the universally accessible experience of Awakening, the book...
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£35,00
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Charleston Fancy Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
ISBN: HB: 9780300229073, Yale University Press, July 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cul...
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£15,00
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Temple in Early Christianity Experiencing the Sacred
ISBN: HB: 9780300197884, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their res...
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How We Cooperate A Theory of Kantian Optimization
ISBN: PB: 9780300233339, Yale University Press, June 2019
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Game theory assumes that people are self-interested and works from this premise to explain competitive behavior. People don't just compete, however; they also cooperate. John Roemer argues that attempts by orthodox game theorists to account for coope...
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