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Dangers of Christian Practice On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin
ISBN: HB: 9780300215823, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculat...
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£20,00
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All Measures Short of War The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300240276, ISBN: HB: 9780300223286, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A groundbreaking look at the future of great power competition in an age of globalization and what the United States can do in response. The two decades after the Cold War saw unprecedented cooperation between the major powers as the world converged...
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Agents of Faith Votive Objects in Time and Place
ISBN: HB: 9780300222968, Yale University Press, September 2018
384 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...
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£55,00
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American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...
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Thirst for Power Energy, Water, and Human Survival
ISBN: PB: 9780300240245, Yale University Press, August 2018
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world's two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted book offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy a...
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Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
ISBN: PB: 9780300238686, Yale University Press, August 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
<p>Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd,...
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£10,99
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Apocalypse as Holy War Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul
ISBN: HB: 9780300204025, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interp...
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£59,00
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Pompeii Archive
ISBN: HB: 9780300233667, Yale University Press, April 2018
120 pp., 27.9x32.4 cm, 83 duotone illus.
Handsomely illustrated and grand in scale, this book features images by American photographer William Wylie (b. 1957) taken over the course of five years. The photographs reanimate the ancient city of Pompeii, showing the ongoing cycles of deteriorat...
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Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...
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£24,00
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Jewish Political Tradition Volume 3: Community
ISBN: HB: 9780300228342, Yale University Press, March 2018
696 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The four-volume series on the Jewish political tradition that includes this volume seeks to connect the political thought of ancient Israel and the Diaspora with the emerging traditions of the modern Israeli state. The first two volumes dealt with au...
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£45,00
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