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Empire to Nation Art, History and the Visualization of Maritime Britain, 1768-1829
ISBN: HB: 9780300175684, Yale University Press, August 2011
304 pp., 26.4x19.3 cm, 40 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
"Empire to Nation" offers a new consideration of the image of the sea in British visual culture during a critical period for both the rise of the visual arts in Britain and the expansion of the nation's imperial power. It argues that maritime imagery...
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£40,00
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Life and Death of Buildings On Photography and Time
ISBN: PB: 9780300174359, Yale University Press, August 2011
104 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour illus.
Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architectur...
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£28,00
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Bom Dia, Brasil
ISBN: PB: 9780300116311, Yale University Press, July 2011
480 pp., 25x15 cm, 421 black&white illus.
"Bom dia, Brasil!" is a completely revised and updated edition of the popular beginning Portuguese text "Portugues Basico para Estrangeiros". It aims to teach the Portuguese language in a fast, interesting, and efficient way. The method employed enga...
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£55,00
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Immortality and the Law The Rising Power of the American Dead
ISBN: PB: 9780300171402, Yale University Press, July 2011
208 pp., 22.4x14.5 cm
This book takes a riveting look at how the law responds to that distinctly American dream of immortality. While American law provides virtually no protections for the interests we hold most dear – our bodies and our reputations – when it comes to pro...
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£15,99
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Looshaus
ISBN: HB: 9780300174533, Yale University Press, July 2011
256 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm, 36 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though i...
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£50,00
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Paradoxical Life Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice
ISBN: PB: 9780300171525, Yale University Press, July 2011
272 pp., 25x15 cm
What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct...
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£26,00
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Absence of Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780300171471, Yale University Press, July 2011
176 pp., 19x12.4 cm
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought – science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-win...
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£12,99
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Reader on Reading
ISBN: PB: 9780300172089, Yale University Press, July 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 black&white illus.
In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called "the Casanova of reading", argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. "We come into the world intent on finding narrative in...
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£12,99
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First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry
ISBN: PB: 9780300180176, Yale University Press, July 2011
220 pp., 21x14.8 cm, black&white illus.
Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...
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£16,00
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Tocqueville and His America
ISBN: HB: 9780300119312, Yale University Press, July 2011
480 pp., 25x15 cm
Arthur Kaledin's groundbreaking book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. The author examines...
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£57,00
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