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City of Gold The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus
ISBN: PB: 9780300174397, Yale University Press, September 2012
400 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 225 colour images, 25 black&white illus.
The modern Cyprian town of Polis Chrysochous – "City of Gold" – lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city – kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the Princeton Cyprus Expe...
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£40,00
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Better Capitalism Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780300146783, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerg...
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£46,00
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Mobilizing Inclusion Transforming the Electorate Through Get-out-the-vote Campaigns
ISBN: PB: 9780300166781, Yale University Press, September 2012
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities – and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do...
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£35,00
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Little History of Philosophy
ISBN: PB: 9780300187793, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 42 black&white illus.
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them...
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£9,99
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I to Myself An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
ISBN: PB: 9780300187984, Yale University Press, September 2012
528 pp., 23.4x19.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
It was his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, another inveterate journal keeper, who urged Thoreau to keep a record of his thoughts and observations. Begun in 1837, "Thoreau's Journal" spans a period of twenty-five years and runs to more than two million wo...
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£18,00
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Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780300123579, Yale University Press, August 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Disease and commerce are among the most powerful forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been the single most important factor in the spread of diseases throughout the world. In this...
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£25,00
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Eccentric Objects Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
ISBN: HB: 9780300181982, Yale University Press, August 2012
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 38 black&white illus.
In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the...
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£45,00
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Handbags The Making of a Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300186185, Yale University Press, August 2012
272 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
The history of the handbag – its design, how it has been made, used, and worn – reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object...
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£30,00
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Athelstan The First King of England
ISBN: PB: 9780300187717, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 3 maps, 16-pages of black&white illus.
The powerful and innovative King Athelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful twelve years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unpre...
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£16,99
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American Circus
ISBN: HB: 9780300185393, Yale University Press, August 2012
432 pp., 27.3x20.4 cm, 327 colour illus.
The circus is a source of nostalgia for Americans of all ages, either from memories of attending P. T. Barnum's "Greatest Show on Earth", or through the colourful evocations in many movies, television programmes, and books. Interest in the circus phe...
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£50,00
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