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Great Plague A People's History
ISBN: HB: 9780300173819, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
During Medieval times, the Black Death wiped out one-fifth of the world's population. Four centuries later, in 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. Though the murderous contagion even...
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£16,99
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Great Charles Dickens Scandal
ISBN: PB: 9780300205282, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Charles Dickens was regarded as a pillar of respectability in Victorian Britain, but in 1858 this image was nearly shattered. With the break-up of his marriage that year, rumours about a scandalous relationship he may have conducted with young actres...
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£9,99
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God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty The Object in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300196665, Yale University Press, November 2013
496 pp., 29x23 cm, 400 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
The Islamic world, spanning centuries and far-flung regions, is renowned for its diverse cultural and artistic traditions. This sumptuous book delves into that vast creative output, examining a dozen exquisite objects in the Museum of Islamic Art, in...
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£60,00
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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...
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£60,00
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Golden Ass Apuleius
ISBN: PB: 9780300198140, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 21x14 cm
With accuracy, wit, and intelligence, this remarkable new translation of "The Golden Ass" breathes new life into Apuleius' classic work. Sarah Ruden, a lyric poet as well as a highly respected translator, skilfully duplicates the verbal high jinks of...
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£11,99
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Great Mirror of Folly Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720
ISBN: HB: 9780300162462, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 240 colour images, 15 black&white illus.
The world's first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris and Amsterdam virtually overnight. Their folly and misfortune inspired the publication of an extraordinary Dutch c...
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£57,00
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Galileo Watcher of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Generation Dada The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9780300169034, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 20 colour images, 130 black&white illus.
For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective – Club Dada, to members – was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baa...
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£45,00
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Geronimo
ISBN: PB: 9780300198362, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 maps, 17 black&white illus.
Renowned for ferocity in battle, legendary for an uncanny ability to elude capture, feared for the violence of his vengeful raids, the Apache warrior Geronimo captured the public imagination in his own time and remains a figure of mythical proportion...
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£14,99
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Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty
ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...
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£50,00
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