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Inigo Jones The Architect of Kings
ISBN: HB: 9780300141498, Yale University Press, September 2011
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 colour images, 130 black&white illus.
Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He fam...
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£35,00
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Trouble with City Planning What New Orleans Can Teach Us
ISBN: PB: 9780300177428, Yale University Press, September 2011
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
After the vast destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a rare chance to rebuild, with an unprecedented opportunity to plan what gets built. As the city's director of planning from 1992 until 2000, Kristina Ford is uniquely placed...
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£26,00
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Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300152616, Yale University Press, September 2011
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
"Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity" reveals the historical dynamics propelling two centuries of Ottoman and Turkish history. As mounting threats to imperial survival necessitated dynamic responses, ethnolinguistic and religious identities ins...
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£35,00
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Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.
"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...
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£55,00
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Women, Work, and Politics The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780300171341, Yale University Press, September 2011
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...
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£24,00
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Daphne Guinness
ISBN: HB: 9780300176636, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour illus.
"She is one of the – if not the – most stylish women living", says designer and film director Tom Ford, speaking of Daphne Guinness, the subject and co-author of this extraordinary book. From her platinum-and-black striped hair to her towering 10-inc...
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£35,00
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Cheshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300170436, Yale University Press, September 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of Cheshire in all their variety, from Pennine villages to coastal plains and seaside resorts. Chester, the regional capital and cathedral city, is famous for its Roman walls and black-and-white timber a...
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£60,00
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Meek One: Fantastic Story An Annotated Russian Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780300162325, Yale University Press, September 2011
192 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.
This fully annotated paperback learner's edition of Dostoevsky's short story "The Meek One" is intended for intermediate and advanced Russian students. In addition to the Russian text, the book includes an introduction discussing the story's historic...
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£16,99
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American Play, 1787-2000
ISBN: PB: 9780300170047, Yale University Press, September 2011
416 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theatre. Mapping the changing cultural landscape from the late eighteenth century to the start of the twenty-first, he explores how...
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£33,00
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Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage
ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.
Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...
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£10,99
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