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Archipelago of Justice Law in France's Early Modern Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300244007, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 14 black&white illus.
This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France's first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial su...
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£50,00
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American Catholics A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300219647, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 15 black&white illus.
This comprehensive survey of Catholic history in what became the United States spans nearly five hundred years, from the arrival of the first Spanish missionaries to the present. Distinguished historian Leslie Tentler explores lay religious practice...
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£22,50
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Dragonomics How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9780300224092, Yale University Press, May 2020
328 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and th...
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Misinformation Age How False Beliefs Spread
ISBN: PB: 9780300251852, Yale University Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather t...
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£11,99
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Gerhard Richter Painting After All
ISBN: HB: 9781588396853, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
280 pp., 26.6x24.1 cm, 230 colour illus.
Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post–Second World War Germany, in both...
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Material Meanings Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300250817, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 66 colour illus.
This book features 31 objects from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works in a variety of media by artists such as Hans Arp, Lynda Benglis, Liz Deschenes, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly. Rather than spe...
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Titian Love, Desire, Death
ISBN: HB: 9781857096552, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2020
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 165 colour and black&white illus.
Titian (active 1506-1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II of Spain, celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses, and mortals. Depicting scenes from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, Titian named them "poesie" and considered the...
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Boxing Pandora Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300235890, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed...
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For My People
ISBN: PB: 9780300246407, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm
Considered among the most important collections of poetry written by a participant in the Black Chicago Renaissance, For My People is a series of ballad poems with memorable characters, including the New Orleans sorceress Molly Means; Kissie Lee, a t...
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Joy 100 Poems
ISBN: PB: 9780300248630, ISBN: HB: 9780300226089, Yale University Press, January 2020
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertise...
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