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Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
ISBN: HB: 9780300203691, Yale University Press, November 2019
216 pp., 21x14 cm
Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide?ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of Go...
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£65,00
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That All Shall Be Saved Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
ISBN: HB: 9780300246223, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
The great fourth-century church father Basil of Caesarea once observed that, in his time, most Christians believed that hell was not everlasting, and that all would eventually attain salvation. But today, this view is no longer prevalent within Chris...
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Underground Wealth of Nations On the Capitalist Origins of Silver Mining, A.D. 1150-1450
ISBN: HB: 9780300218220, Yale University Press, November 2019
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale business...
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Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water
ISBN: HB: 9780300226621, Yale University Press, November 2019
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
Award-winning author Antonio Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a vigorous account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty?seven months in Angola...
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£18,99
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Gauguin Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780300237269, Yale University Press, November 2019
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an artist perpetually in search of new horizons. This fascinating visual tour reveals the full extent of Gauguin's travels and their influence on his unique style. Gauguin's several lengthy trips to Tahiti and the Marques...
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£16,99
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What We Did in Bed A Horizontal History
ISBN: HB: 9780300223880, Yale University Press, November 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expe...
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When Home Won't Let You Stay Migration through Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300247480, Yale University Press, November 2019
240 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm, 134 colour illus.
In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to mig...
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Whistleblowers Honesty in America from Washington to Trump
ISBN: HB: 9780300186888, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service – yet they always suffer for it. This epi...
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With Pleasure Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985
ISBN: HB: 9780300239942, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 300 colour illus.
The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others a...
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Young Bomberg and the Old Masters
ISBN: PB: 9781857096477, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
64 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 65 colour and black&white illus.
The British painter David Bomberg (1890-1957) was among the most precociously talented artists of his generation, and the influence of his legacy continues to be felt. This catalogue is the first to explore Bomberg's early work in relation to the col...
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