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George Shaw A Corner of a Foreign Field
ISBN: HB: 9780300236644, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus.
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011, George Shaw (b. 1966) is one of Britain's leading contemporary painters, best known for his painstakingly detailed, luminous, and often elegiac representations of the British suburban landscape. Beautifully des...
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£50,00
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Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...
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£22,00
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
ISBN: PB: 9780300227437, Yale University Press, July 2018
144 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...
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£8,99
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Georg Jensen Scandinavian Design for Living
ISBN: HB: 9780300232998, Yale University Press, July 2018
224 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
In 1904 Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) founded one of the world's most celebrated design companies. Famous for its signature silver tableware that combines gleaming sculptural forms with lush ornament, Jensen's eponymous firm has stood a...
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£40,00
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Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales
ISBN: HB: 9780300232080, Yale University Press, June 2018
412 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 177 colour and black&white illus.
The extravagant gardens of the 16th- and 17th-century British aristocracy are well-documented and celebrated, but the more modest gardens of the rural county gentry have rarely been examined. Jill Francis presents new, never-before published material...
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£35,00
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Gershom Scholem Master of the Kabbalah
ISBN: HB: 9780300215908, Yale University Press, June 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the foremost Jewish intellectual of the twentieth century. Pioneering the study of Jewish mysticism as a legitimate academic discipline, he overturned the rationalist bias of his predecessors and revealed an ex...
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£16,99
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Grave New World The End of Globalization, the Return of History
ISBN: PB: 9780300234503, Yale University Press, April 2018
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order. Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of...
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£10,99
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Gifted Passage Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text
ISBN: HB: 9780300228960, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. "The Gifted Passage" establishes that adol...
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Great Apes A Short History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...
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£20,00
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Gluck Art and Identity
ISBN: HB: 9780300230482, Yale University Press, November 2017
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 236 colour illus.
Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the a...
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£25,00
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