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Tilted Playing Field Is Criminal Justice Unfair?
ISBN: PB: 9780300183023, Yale University Press, November 2011
328 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Although evenly matched adversaries make for a more exciting athletic contest, and a level playing field is essential to a fair game, is the same true in a criminal trial? In this compelling new book, H. Richard Uviller argues that a criminal trial i...
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£25,00
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Time and a Place Near Sydenham Hill by Camille Pissarro
ISBN: PB: 9780300175776, Yale University Press, November 2011
94 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 15 black&white illus.
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is best known as one of the founders of the Impressionist movement. Although he received his artistic training in Paris, a seven-month stay in London, beginning in December of 1870, had a lasting impact on his artistic de...
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£12,00
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Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education
ISBN: PB: 9780300183009, Yale University Press, November 2011
266 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Kindergarten kissing games... four-year-olds playing doctor... a teacher holding a crying child on his lap as he comforts her. Interactions like these-spontaneous and pleasurable-are no longer encouraged in American early childhood classrooms, and in...
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£20,00
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After the Fires The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park
ISBN: PB: 9780300184181, Yale University Press, November 2011
402 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
The ravaging fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1988 caused grave concern among scientists about the possible short- and longterm repercussions. This book provides the first comprehensive scientific summary of the actual response of the Yellowston...
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£28,00
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Building After Auschwitz Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust
ISBN: HB: 9780300169140, Yale University Press, November 2011
440 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 25 colour images, 150 black&white illus.
Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richa...
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£50,00
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Informant The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
ISBN: PB: 9780300184136, Yale University Press, November 2011
450 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In "The Informant", historian Gary May reveals the untold story of the murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo, shot to death by members of the violent Birmingham Ku Klux Klan at the end of Martin Luther King's historic Voting Rights March in 1965...
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£30,00
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Age of American Impressionism
ISBN: HB: 9780300175745, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
160 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus.
Although renowned for its holdings of works by French Impressionists, the Art Institute of Chicago also houses a wealth of superb examples by American proponents of this distinctive style. The collection includes works by such notable artists as Ceci...
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£35,00
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Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938
ISBN: PB: 9780300182965, Yale University Press, November 2011
658 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl's research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist's life, a period in which Husserl's philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina shows that Fink was actuall...
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£45,00
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Relapse and Recovery in Addictions
ISBN: PB: 9780300182996, Yale University Press, November 2011
434 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In this book leading experts in the field of addictions report on key aspects of addictive disorders. They focus particularly on relapse, the long-term course of addiction to drugs or alcohol, and interventions to prevent relapse and promote recovery...
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£28,00
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Counter-Revolution The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-1648
ISBN: PB: 9780300184075, Yale University Press, November 2011
552 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
While much has been written on the subject of the English Civil War, the Second Civil War has been largely neglected. Robert Ashton, author of the standard history, The English Civil War, now provides a detailed and erudite account of the origins of...
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£35,00
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