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Drumming Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
ISBN: PB: 9780300253986, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2021
128 pp., 33x24.1 cm, 80 illus.
"Drumming" is a widely admired dance piece choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960), set to music by the minimalist composer Steve Reich and featuring costumes by Dries Van Noten, that has been performed continuously around the world sin...
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£25,00
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Dead of the Irish Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300123821, Yale University Press, November 2020
704 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm
This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921 – a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governin...
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£50,00
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David King Designer, Activist, Visual Historian
ISBN: HB: 9780300250107, Yale University Press, September 2020
240 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 260 illus.
This book offers a comprehensive overview to the work and legacy of David King (1943-2016), whose fascinating career bridged journalism, graphic design, photography, and collecting. King launched his career at Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in the 1...
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Diabetes A History of Race and Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780300228991, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Who is considered most at risk for diabetes, and why? In this thorough, engaging book, historian Arleen Tuchman examines and critiques how these questions have been answered by both the public and medical communities for over a century in the United...
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Detroit Style Car Design in the Motor City, 1950-2020
ISBN: HB: 9780300247084, Yale University Press, June 2020
150 pp., 29.2x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.
Detroit, nicknamed Motor City, has always been a leader in car design. As the city became the center of the American automobile industry in the early 20th century, its studios became incubators for new ideas and new styles. This volume highlights the...
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Dragonomics How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9780300224092, Yale University Press, May 2020
328 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and th...
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Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears
ISBN: HB: 9780300167498, Yale University Press, April 2020
304 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Laszlo F. Foldenyi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, his work resonates with that of Montaigne, Rilke, and Mann...
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£18,99
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Dispatches from Planet 3 Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
ISBN: PB: 9780300248302, ISBN: HB: 9780300235746, Yale University Press, March 2020
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.
The galaxy, the multiverse, and the history of astronomy are explored in this engaging compilation of cosmological "tales" by multiple award-winning science writer Marcia Bartusiak. In thirty-two concise and engrossing essays, the author provides a d...
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Dawoud Bey Two American Projects
ISBN: HB: 9780300248500, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 32 duotones, 25 tritones, 29 colour illus.
Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has also found inspiration in the...
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Decline of Magic Britain in the Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300243581, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.
In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certa...
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