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Natural Capital Valuing the Planet
ISBN: PB: 9780300219371, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables-like species-keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables-like oil and gas-can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures ou...
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£12,99
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National Gallery Companion Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781857095968, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2016
368 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 230 colour illus.
For two decades, The National Gallery Companion Guide has introduced art lovers to one of the richest collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters – Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt,...
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£14,95
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Nietzsche's Orphans Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300208894, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social a...
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£75,00
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Natural History of Wine
ISBN: HB: 9780300211023, Yale University Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm, 62 colour illus.
An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wi...
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£25,00
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Neuroimmunity A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young
ISBN: HB: 9780300203479, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.
In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturn...
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£25,00
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Naturalists at Sea Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
ISBN: PB: 9780300205404, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 colour illus.
On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrati...
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£14,99
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No Freedom Without Regulation The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780300211672, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world's most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong...
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£25,00
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New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness
ISBN: HB: 9780300191578, Yale University Press, July 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between...
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£65,00
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Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300196368, Yale University Press, May 2015
464 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern gardening. Ra...
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£45,00
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New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater Play and Playtext
ISBN: HB: 9780300109566, Yale University Press, February 2015
800 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full t...
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£104,00
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