ledochowicz.com

History of Art

Beyond Aesthetics Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions

Soyinka Wole

ISBN: HB: 9780300247626, Yale University Press, February 2020
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 11 black&white illus.

The playwright, poet, essayist, novelist, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka is also a longtime art collector. This book of essays offers a glimpse into the motivations of the collector, as well as a highly personal look at the politics of aesthetics an...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ancient World

Story of Greece and Rome

Spawforth Tony

ISBN: PB: 9780300251647, ISBN: HB: 9780300217117, Yale University Press, February 2020
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 27 colour illus., 5 maps

The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Sp...

PB:

£9,99

QTY:

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Design

Radical Italian Design 1965-1985 (The Dennis Freedman Collection)

Strauss Cindi

ISBN: HB: 9780300247497, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 117 colour illus.

In the mid-1960s, reacting to contemporary social and political upheaval, young Italian architects and designers began developing a new style that openly challenged Modernism. Known as "Radical design," this movement probed possibilities for visually...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Mathematics

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Su Francis, Jackson Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300237139, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.

For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, w...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Poetry

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Crush

Siken Richard, Gluck Louise

ISBN: PB: 9780300246308, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm

Richard Siken's "Crush", selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional,...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Islam

Radical Love Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition

Safi Omid

ISBN: PB: 9780300248616, Yale University Press, November 2019
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love fo...

PB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

World

How the Old World Ended The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800

Scott Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300243598, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 maps

Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part of the world. At its core the Anglo-Dutch relationship intertwined close alliance and fierce antagonism to intense creative effect. But a precondition for...

HB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Political Science

Whistleblowers Honesty in America from Washington to Trump

Stanger Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780300186888, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service – yet they always suffer for it. This epi...

HB:

£18,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Rachel Harrison Life Hack

Sussman Elisabeth, Joselit David

ISBN: HB: 9780300246858, Yale University Press, November 2019
282 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 290 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist's books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with th...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

Sancho Lobis Victoria, Owen Antoinette, Casadio Francesca, Vokt Ziemba Emily

ISBN: HB: 9780300247077, Yale University Press, October 2019
356 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 218 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

With a lively narrative thread and thematic chapters, this book offers an exceptional introduction to Dutch and Flemish drawing during the long 17th century. Victoria Sancho Lobis discusses the many roles of drawing in artistic training, its function...

HB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list