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Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...
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£12,99
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Freedom's Debtors British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300217445, Yale University Press, October 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
British anti-slavery, widely seen as a great sacrifice of economic and political capital on the altar of humanitarianism, was in fact profitable, militarily useful, and crucial to the expansion of British power in West Africa. After the slave trade w...
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£37,00
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From Lascaux to Brooklyn
ISBN: HB: 9780300230925, Yale University Press, October 2017
200 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 60 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Hailed upon its publication as "discriminating, erudite, and eclectic", From Lascaux to Brooklyn is now available to readers once again. First published in 1996, the year of Paul Rand's death, the volume embarks on a wonderful journey from the time b...
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 3: Degas
ISBN: PB: 9780300230116, Yale University Press, October 2017
196 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 162 colour illus.
This volume of "Facture", a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history, and scientific research rela...
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£25,00
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Fashion in Steel The Landsknecht Armour of Wilhelm von Rogendorf
ISBN: HB: 9780300230864, Yale University Press, September 2017
128 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.
This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art – the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtie...
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£30,00
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Fibrils Volume 3: The Rules of the Game
ISBN: HB: 9780300212396, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis. A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel...
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£20,00
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Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine
ISBN: PB: 9780300227048, Yale University Press, May 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm
Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtfu...
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Florine Stettheimer Painting Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300221985, Yale University Press, May 2017
168 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 150 colour illus.
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York. Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemi...
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£35,00
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Flourishing Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
ISBN: PB: 9780300227130, Yale University Press, May 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
More than almost anything else, globalization and the great world religions are shaping our lives, affecting everything from the public policies of political leaders and the economic decisions of industry bosses and employees, to university curricula...
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£14,99
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Forgetting Myths, Perils and Compensations
ISBN: PB: 9780300226423, Yale University Press, May 2017
280 pp., 21.6x14 cm
In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory, renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the "miracle" of forgetting. Far from be...
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