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Treasures of the Earth Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300167825, Yale University Press, September 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific de...
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£28,00
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Landscape Manifesto
ISBN: HB: 9780300156584, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 24.1x23.7 cm, 18 black&white illus., 215 colour illus.
Diana Balmori, an innovative and influential landscape architect in the field of urban design, makes the case for landscape as an art in her timely and provocative Manifesto. This book presents Balmori's most complete vision yet of the theory and pra...
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Atlas of the Peninsular War
ISBN: HB: 9780300148695, Yale University Press, September 2010
160 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 77 maps, 35 illus.
This is the first comprehensive modern atlas of the Peninsular War, the series of campaigns in Spain and Portugal between Napoleonic France and British forces commanded by the Duke of Wellington. Here a distinguished military historian examines and e...
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£25,00
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Spirit of the Quakers
ISBN: PB: 9780300167368, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Who are the Quakers, what do they believe, and what do they practise? At the heart of their faith lies the conviction that everyone can have a direct experience of God without the mediation of priests or religious leaders. They express this in a uniq...
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£9,99
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Nobody's Property Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010
ISBN: HB: 9780300149289, Yale University Press, September 2010
136 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 10 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are ni...
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£35,00
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Learning to Teach Through Discussion The Art of Turning the Soul
ISBN: PB: 9780300168303, ISBN: HB: 9780300120004, Yale University Press, September 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This sequel to Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon's acclaimed "Turning the Soul: Teaching Through Conversation in the High School" presents a case study of two people learning to teach. It shows them engaging two groups of fourth grade students in discussion...
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£21,00
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£35,00
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Lenin's Jewish Question
ISBN: HB: 9780300152104, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this first examination of Lenin's genealogical and political connections to East European Jews, Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern reveals the broad cultural meanings of indisputable evidence that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jew. He examines why and...
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£57,00
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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.
This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...
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£23,00
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Japan Fashion Now
ISBN: PB: 9780300167276, Yale University Press, September 2010
240 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.
Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But w...
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£35,00
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Olmec Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
ISBN: HB: 9780300166767, Yale University Press, September 2010
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 180 colour illus.
Considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, the Olmec developed an iconic and sophisticated artistic style as early as the second millennium B. C. This pre-Columbian civilization, which flourished in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco bet...
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£60,00
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