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Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894
ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...
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£65,00
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Galileo Watcher of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...
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Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian
ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...
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Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971
ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...
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£35,00
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Generation Dada The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9780300169034, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 20 colour images, 130 black&white illus.
For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective – Club Dada, to members – was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baa...
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£45,00
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Birds of New Zealand A Photographic Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300196825, Yale University Press, October 2013
500 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 colour illus.
New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, b...
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£32,00
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Little History of the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300197181, Yale University Press, October 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 200 colour illus.
E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book...
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Voting Wars From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown
ISBN: PB: 9780300198249, ISBN: HB: 9780300182033, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000 presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the presidency by the U. S. Supreme Court, revealed that our electoral processes...
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£23,00
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Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780300198294, ISBN: HB: 9780300125214, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 22 black&white illus.
Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change – one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on...
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Common Faith Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm
In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...
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