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In the Shadow of the Moon The Science, Magic, and Mystery of Solar Eclipses
ISBN: HB: 9780300223194, Yale University Press, June 2017
328 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.
In anticipation of solar eclipses visible in 2017 and 2024, an exploration of the scientific and cultural significance of this mesmerizing cosmic display. Since the first humans looked up and saw the sun swallowed by darkness, our species has been c...
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£20,00
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Insider Trading How Mortuaries, Medicine and Money Have Built a Global Market in Human Cadaver Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300118551, Yale University Press, June 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits. Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to...
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£18,99
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Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag The Violence of Stalin's Labor Camps
ISBN: HB: 9780300179415, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist terror. In a shocking new study of life and death in Stalin's Gulag, historian Golfo Alexopoulos suggests that Soviet forced labo...
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£45,00
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In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910
ISBN: HB: 9780300230093, Yale University Press, April 2017
180 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.
The rise of democratic ideals and the burgeoning middle class of the late 19th and early 20th centuries precipitated an important surge in the prevalence of music in everyday life. Cafe concerts, dances, and operas all flourished in major cities acro...
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£25,00
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Irving Penn Centennial
ISBN: HB: 9781588396181, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
372 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 365 colour illus.
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous...
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£55,00
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Inventing American Exceptionalism The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877
ISBN: PB: 9780300222258, ISBN: HB: 9780300198072, Yale University Press, March 2017
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
A highly engaging account of the developments-not only legal, but also socioeconomic, political, and cultural – that gave rise to Americans' distinctively lawyer – driven legal culture When Americans imagine their legal system, it is the adversarial...
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£39,00
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£70,00
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Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...
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£25,00
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International Civil War Greece, 1943-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780300180602, Yale University Press, January 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in th...
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£18,99
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Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, ISBN: HB: 9780300200706, Yale University Press, October 2016
296 pp., 23x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...
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£28,00
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£65,00
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Intelligence in the Flesh Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks
ISBN: PB: 9780300223477, Yale University Press, September 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...
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£12,99
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