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Beowulf
ISBN: PB: 9780300236668, Yale University Press, October 2018
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
<p>"Beowulf" tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures – a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon – and then dies, mortally wounded during his last enco...
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£10,99
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Belonging on an Island Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i
ISBN: HB: 9780300229646, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concep...
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£40,00
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Bela Bartok
ISBN: PB: 9780300234374, Yale University Press, April 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
<p>This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David Cooper traces Bartok's international career as an ardent ethno-musicologist and compose...
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£19,99
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Bruce Nauman Contrapposto Studies
ISBN: HB: 9780300233094, Yale University Press, March 2018
154 pp., 25.1x19 cm, 100 colour illus.
This important publication offers the first in-depth exploration of contemporary artist Bruce Nauman's (b. 1941) monumental works Contrapposto Studies, I through VII and Contrapposto Studies, i through vii of 2015–16. The book surveys Nauman's trajec...
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£25,00
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Burn Out The Endgame for Fossil Fuels
ISBN: PB: 9780300234480, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change. Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how...
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£12,99
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Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...
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£24,00
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Birds of a Feather Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris
ISBN: PB: 9781588396273, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2018
96 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 50 colour and black&white illus.
An insightful study of Joseph Cornell's fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists. Joseph Cornell first viewed Cubist painter Juan Gris's "The Man at the Cafe" in October 1953. This visual encounte...
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£18,99
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Book of Whispers
ISBN: HB: 9780300223460, Yale University Press, February 2018
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand accounts of those who had witnessed horrific killings, burned villages, and massive deportati...
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£18,99
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Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...
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£10,99
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Big and Small A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies
ISBN: HB: 9780300228861, Yale University Press, November 2017
360 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference – particularly unusual bodies, big and small – as an overlooked yet crucial...
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£20,00
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