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Field Guide to Long Island Sound Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife
ISBN: PB: 9780300220353, Yale University Press, March 2017
416 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1200 colour illus.
A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people. Long Island Sound consists of a diverse collection of unique marine, estuarine, and terres...
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£20,00
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Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...
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£40,00
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Fake Silk The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon
ISBN: HB: 9780300204667, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations,...
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£30,00
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Forging Capitalism Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance
ISBN: PB: 9780300223590, ISBN: HB: 9780300181944, Yale University Press, January 2017
296 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 4 black&white illus.
A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's "Forging Capitalism"...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)
ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...
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£135,00
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From Christ to Confucius German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300217070, Yale University Press, January 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A bold and original study of German missionaries in China, who catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself In this accessibly written and empirically based study, Albert Wu documents how German...
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£65,00
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Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy
ISBN: HB: 9780300214222, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm
A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women –...
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£49,00
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French Art of the Eighteenth Century The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300220179, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 134 colour illus.
This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presen...
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£25,00
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: PB: 9780300197709, Yale University Press, October 2016
440 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 225 colour illus.
A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. Thes...
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£20,00
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Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...
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£45,00
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