ledochowicz.com

Political Science

Fragile Empire How Russia Fell in and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin

Judah Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780300205220, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.

From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government of...

PB:

£9,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Biography & Memoires

Faisal I of Iraq

Allawi Ali A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300127324, Yale University Press, December 2013
560 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Born in 1885, King Faisal I of Iraq was a great figure not only in the founding of the state of Iraq but also in the making of the modern Middle East. In all the tumult leading to the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of new Ara...

HB:

£45,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Contemporary Art

Fernand Leger and the Modern City

Vallye Anna, Derouet Christian, Gough Maria, Liebman Stuart, Papapetros Spyros, Wild Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.

With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...

PB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Christianity

First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity

Wilken Robert Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300198386, Yale University Press, December 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the...

PB:

£16,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Asia

Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962 An Oral History

Xun Zhou

ISBN: HB: 9780300184044, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1958, China's revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a programme designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao's grand scheme – like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century – proved a mon...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Formation of the Jewish Canon

Lim Timothy H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...

HB:

£34,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

Future of Nature Documents of Global Change

Robin Libby, Sorlin Sverker, Warde Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...

PB:

£27,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Facing the Modern The Portrait in Vienna, 1900

Blackshaw Gemma, De Waal Edmund, Gronberg Tag, Johnson Julie, Lehmann Doris, Shapira Elana, Wieber Sabine, Costello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9781857095616, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2013
216 pp., 28.9x22 cm, 140 colour illus.

During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobi...

HB:

£35,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Fictions of Art History

Hatt Michael, Ledbury Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300191929, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 90 black&white illus.

"Fictions of Art History", the most recent addition to the Clark Studies in the "Visual Arts" series, addresses art history's complex relationships with fiction, poetry, and creative writing. Inspired by a 2010 conference, the volume examines art his...

PB:

£16,99

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 1: Renaissance Masterworks

Gifford E. Melanie, Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197426, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 115 colour illus.

The National Gallery of Art introduces a new journal presenting the latest conservation research on works in its collection. Named for "the manner in which things are made", "Facture" addresses aspects of conservation from treatment and technical art...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list