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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...
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£35,00
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We Alone How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It
ISBN: HB: 9780300251166, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research...
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Bisa Butler Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780300254310, Yale University Press, November 2020
104 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 39 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Bisa Butler (b. 1975) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African Ame...
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Marginal Revolutionaries How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
ISBN: PB: 9780300255409, ISBN: HB: 9780300228229, Yale University Press, November 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The Austrian School of Economics – a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society, especially among the American right – is poorly understood by supporters and detractors alike. Defining themselves in opposition to the main...
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£18,99
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Majolica Mania Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850-1915
ISBN: SET: 9780300251043, Yale University Press, November 2020
888 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 1200 colour and black&white illus.
Colorful, wildly imaginative, and technically innovative, majolica was functional and aesthetic ceramic ware. Its subject matter reflects a range of 19th-century preoccupations, from botany and zoology to popular humor and the macabre. "Majolica Mani...
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£225,00
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Lin May Saeed Arrival of the Animals
ISBN: PB: 9780300250862, Yale University Press, November 2020
144 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 50 colour illus.
German artist Lin May Saeed (b. 1973) grapples with the complex entanglements of humans and animals. Her work centers on the nonhuman animal and revisits, revises, or outright invents stories of animal subjugation, liberation, and harmonious cohabita...
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£25,00
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Ceramics of Iran Islamic Pottery in the Sarikhani Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300254280, Yale University Press, October 2020
528 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 530 colour and black&white illus.
Featuring a broad selection of objects from one of the most distinguished collections of Iranian art, this volume brings together over 1,000 years of Persian Islamic pottery. With more than 500 illustrations, authoritative technical treatises, and in...
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£50,00
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Athenaeum "More Than Just Another London Club"
ISBN: HB: 9780300246773, Yale University Press, September 2020
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
When it was founded in 1824, the Athen?um broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis of their achievements rather than on their background or political affiliation. Public rather than private life dominated...
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Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps
<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...
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Great Inoculator The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300241440, Yale University Press, August 2020
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk,...
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£16,99
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