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Franz Liszt Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
ISBN: PB: 9780300228755, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent...
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£14,99
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Frederick Douglass Papers, Volume 2, Series 3 Correspondence, 1853-1865
ISBN: HB: 9780300218305, Yale University Press, March 2018
720 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The second collection of meticulously edited correspondence with abolitionist, author, statesman, and former slave Frederick Douglass covers the years leading up to the Civil War through the close of the conflict, offering readers an illuminating por...
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£115,00
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Free the Beaches The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline
ISBN: HB: 9780300215144, Yale University Press, March 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of C...
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£25,00
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Figuring History Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas
ISBN: HB: 9780300233896, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 59 colour illus.
Contemporary artists Robert Colescott (1925-2009), Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955), and Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) are distinguished by their attention to a history of representation, which they re-visit and revise to reflect on individual and collect...
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£25,00
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First Domestication How Wolves and Humans Coevolved
ISBN: HB: 9780300226164, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describ...
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£35,00
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Foreign Policy for the Left
ISBN: HB: 9780300223873, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for workers against moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (We...
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£25,00
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Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone)
ISBN: HB: 9780300212440, Yale University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of...
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£18,99
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Frederic Church A Painter's Pilgrimage
ISBN: PB: 9780300218435, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
Frederic Church (1826-1900), one of the leading painters of 19th-century America and the Hudson River School, also journeyed around the globe to find fresh inspiration for his highly detailed compositions. Among Church's lesser-known masterpieces are...
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£35,00
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Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection
ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm
In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...
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£20,00
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First Impressions A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest
ISBN: HB: 9780300215045, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.
This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the fi...
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£25,00
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