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Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780300205626, Yale University Press, October 2015
492 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus., 180 black&white illus.
Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age w...
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£50,00
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Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story
ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps
The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...
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£25,00
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Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth
ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...
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£9,99
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Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...
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£40,00
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Duke's Assassin Exile and Death of Lorenzino De' Medici
ISBN: HB: 9780300189780, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Stefano Dall'Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de' Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on two of the most infamous assassinations of Italian Renaissance history. In 1537 Lorenzino changed the course of history by murderin...
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£49,00
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Discovering Tuberculosis A Global History, 1900 to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9780300190298, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year, now more than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across mu...
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£50,00
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Disguise Masks and Global African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300208740, Yale University Press, July 2015
104 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.
While masks are a major art form in many parts of Africa, their use has taken new turns in the 21st century. "Disguise: Masks and Global African Art" explores how themes related to masking and disguise in the past are now transitioning into new platf...
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£30,00
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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300208931, Yale University Press, July 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun ri...
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£25,00
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Dragonflies Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land
ISBN: HB: 9780300197082, Yale University Press, May 2015
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 172 colour illus.
Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing t...
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Dressing Up Fashion Week NYC
ISBN: HB: 9780300179859, Yale University Press, May 2015
84 pp., 33x28 cm, 59 duotone illus.
Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and c...
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