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Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West
ISBN: PB: 9780300198263, Yale University Press, October 2013
384 pp., 23.9x15.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.
In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s, historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends...
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£33,00
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America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...
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£26,00
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End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...
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£10,99
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£20,00
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History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000
ISBN: HB: 9780300196146, Yale University Press, October 2013
704 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 760 colour and black&white illus.
Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from...
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£50,00
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Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...
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£14,99
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Robespierre A Revolutionary Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300197242, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictat...
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£13,99
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Erwin Blumenfeld
ISBN: PB: 9780300199383, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 90 colour images, 90 black&white illus.
Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld's peripatetic career took him fi...
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£30,00
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Deadly Art European Crossbows, 1250-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780300197044, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2013
144 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.
The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. "A Deadly Art" presents a...
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£18,99
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Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm
Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Russian Full Circle A First Year Russian Textbook
ISBN: HB: 9780300182835, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 30 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
"Russian Full Circle" is a fresh approach to the Russian textbook. Deliberately "bare-bones" in its design, this textbook allows instructors to deliver in one academic year a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists of ten lessons tha...
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£65,00
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