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Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers The Rise of the Arab Gulf
ISBN: HB: 9780300192346, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emir...
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£20,00
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Jerusalem, 1000-1400 Every People Under Heaven
ISBN: HB: 9781588395986, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
352 pp., 30.8x24.3 cm, 354 colour illus.
A comprehensive and timely exploration of the key role Jerusalem played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Ages Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center and home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and disso...
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£50,00
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How to Read Medieval Art
ISBN: PB: 9781588395979, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
136 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, 141 colour illus.
An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle Ages How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which...
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£18,99
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Origins, Invention, Revision Studying the History of Art and Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300218718, Yale University Press, October 2016
232 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 63 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on It...
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£25,00
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George Whitefield America's Spiritual Founding Father
ISBN: PB: 9780300223583, Yale University Press, October 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd's fascinating n...
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£18,99
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Collecting Food, Cultivating People Subsistence and Society in Central Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300218534, Yale University Press, September 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study...
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£60,00
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Lost World of Byzantium
ISBN: PB: 9780300223538, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emp...
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£12,99
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Lusitania The Cultural History of a Catastrophe
ISBN: HB: 9780300221381, Yale University Press, September 2016
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 black&white illus.
A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people...
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£18,99
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My Dear Li Correspondence, 1937-1946
ISBN: HB: 9780300196931, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second W...
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£25,00
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Real Lives of Roman Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300223491, Yale University Press, September 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
<p>The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological remains of villas, forts, walls, and cities explain a great deal, we lack a clear s...
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£12,99
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