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Bonds of Womanhood "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
ISBN: PB: 9780300254082, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers.
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£14,99
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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...
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£30,00
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Berber Memories Women and Jewelry in Morocco
ISBN: HB: 9780300253955, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2020
480 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 700 illus.
The Berbers, also known as Amazigh, are an ethnic group indigenous to North and West Africa. For hundreds of years, Berber tribes of Morocco have created intricate jewelry to adorn the bodies of Berber women not merely to aesthetic ends, but to conve...
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£65,00
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Better Planet Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300255225, ISBN: HB: 9780300246247, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address cr...
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£12,99
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£18,99
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Bisa Butler Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780300254310, Yale University Press, November 2020
104 pp., 30.5x20.3 cm, 39 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
Bisa Butler (b. 1975) is an American artist who creates arresting and psychologically nuanced portraits composed entirely of vibrantly colored and patterned fabrics that she cuts, layers, and stitches together. Often depicting scenes from African Ame...
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£25,00
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Better Business How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300247152, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all, or they can guide us toward better, more equitable long-term solutions. Christopher Marquis tells the...
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£20,00
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Bloomsbury Look
ISBN: HB: 9780300244113, Yale University Press, October 2020
184 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 160 illus.
The Bloomsbury Group was a loose collective of forward-thinking writers, artists, and intellectuals in London, with Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and E. M. Forster among its esteemed members. The group's works and radical beliefs, spanning lit...
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£30,00
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Bhutto Dynasty The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300246674, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.
The Bhutto family has long been one of the most ambitious and powerful in Pakistan. But politics has cost the Bhuttos dear. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, widely regarded as the most talented politician in the country's history, was removed from power in 1977...
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£20,00
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Britain and Europe in a Troubled World
ISBN: HB: 9780300245615, Yale University Press, September 2020
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Is Britain a part of Europe? The British have been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties throughout the Continent. Brita...
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£16,99
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Battle for Syria International Rivalry in the New Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9780300249910, Yale University Press, August 2020
384 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Updated with two new chapters, this book exposes the profound influence of the United States, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar in Syria's bloody conflict and explores the implications of the perceived decline of American power in the Mid...
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£12,99
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