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Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics
ISBN: HB: 9780300231298, Yale University Press, December 2019
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 75 black&white illus.
The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye?opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat?righting reflex have provided crucial insights i...
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£18,99
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Francois Morellet
ISBN: HB: 9780300245691, Yale University Press, November 2019
248 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 90 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This in-depth exploration of celebrated French artist Francois Morellet (1926-2016) showcases his diverse oeuvre, famous for infusing systematic and rigorous experimentation with humor and playfulness. Morellet's interest in kinetic and optical effec...
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£45,00
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 4: Series, Multiples, Replicas
ISBN: PB: 9780300247619, Yale University Press, November 2019
288 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 246 colour illus.
Volume 4 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture examines the complex themes of series, multiples, and replicas. With a broad historical purview that spans from the Renaissance to the 20th century, this publica...
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£25,00
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Family Record
ISBN: PB: 9780300238310, Yale University Press, November 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A mix of autobiography and lucid invention, this highly personal work offers a deeply affecting exploration of the meaning of identity and pedigree. With his signature blend of candor, mystery, and bewitching elusiveness, Patrick Modiano weaves toget...
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£12,99
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Fernand Khnopff
ISBN: HB: 9780300246506, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2019
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Michel Draguet, an internationally recognized authority on fin-de-siecle art, offers an enlightening examination of the life and art of Belgian Symbolist painter Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921). Khnopff achieved wide...
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£45,00
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Free Enterprise An American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300238259, Yale University Press, October 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Throughout the twentieth century, "free enterprise" has been a contested keyword in American politics, and the cornerstone of a conservative philosophy that seeks to limit government involvement into economic matters. Lawrence B. Glickman shows how t...
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£25,00
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Fundamentals of Physics Volume I: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (Expanded Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300243772, Yale University Press, October 2019
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 123 black&white illus.
In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well?known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded...
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£25,00
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Fires of Life Endothermy in Birds and Mammals
ISBN: HB: 9780300227161, Yale University Press, August 2019
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 60 black&white illus.
This pioneering work investigates why endothermy, or "warm-bloodedness", evolved in birds and mammals, despite its enormous energetic costs. Arguing that single-cause hypotheses to explain the origins of endothermy have stalled research since the 197...
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£29,00
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Frontiers in the Gilded Age Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917
ISBN: HB: 9780300225877, Yale University Press, August 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop beyond the United States where Americans chased capitalist dreams. Crisscrossing the American West, southern Africa, and northern Mexico, Andrew Offenburger examines ho...
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£35,00
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Future Proof How to Build Resilience in an Uncertain World
ISBN: HB: 9780300228670, Yale University Press, August 2019
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have...
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£20,00
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