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Nature Strange and Beautiful How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home
ISBN: HB: 9780300244625, Yale University Press, October 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 65 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
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£20,00
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Nineteenth-Century French Paintings Volume 1: The Barbizon School
ISBN: HB: 9781857099249, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2019
464 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 435 colour and black&white illus.
The significant collection of 19th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes many important works by artists associated with the Barbizon School. In addition to paintings by Courbet, Millet, and Rousseau, there are over twent...
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£75,00
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People and the Land through Time Linking Ecology and History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300225808, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
"People and the Land through Time", first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes. Widely praised for its emphasis on the integration of historical in...
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£30,00
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Polygamy An Early American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300226843, Yale University Press, October 2019
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Today we tend to think of polygamy as an unnatural marital arrangement characteristic of fringe sects or uncivilized peoples. Historian Sarah Pearsall shows us that polygamy's surprising history encompasses numerous colonies, indigenous communities,...
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£30,00
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Richard III The Self-Made King
ISBN: HB: 9780300214291, Yale University Press, October 2019
388 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life. While much at...
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£25,00
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Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300247077, Yale University Press, October 2019
356 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 218 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.
With a lively narrative thread and thematic chapters, this book offers an exceptional introduction to Dutch and Flemish drawing during the long 17th century. Victoria Sancho Lobis discusses the many roles of drawing in artistic training, its function...
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£25,00
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Safe Enough Spaces A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses
ISBN: HB: 9780300234855, Yale University Press, October 2019
160 pp., 21x14 cm
n this bracing book, Michael S. Roth stakes out a pragmatist path through the thicket of issues facing colleges today to carry out the mission of higher education. With great empathy, candor, subtlety, and insight, Roth offers a sane approach to the...
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£18,99
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Westminster Abbey A Church in History
ISBN: HB: 9781913107024, Yale University Press, October 2019
456 pp., 24.1x18.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of the consecration of the current Abbey church bu...
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£35,00
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Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300243888, Yale University Press, October 2019
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In this third edition of the definitive book on the unique system by which Americans choose a president – and why that system should be changed – George Edwards includes a new chapter focusing on the 2016 election.
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£20,00
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Alonso Berruguete First Sculptor of Renaissance Spain
ISBN: HB: 9780300248319, Yale University Press, September 2019
244 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.
Alonso Berruguete (c. 1488-1561) revolutionized the arts of Renaissance Spain with a dramatic style of sculpture that reflected the decade or more he had spent in Italy while young. Trained as a painter, he traveled to Italy around 1506, where he int...
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£40,00
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