art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
Tibet A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300194104, Yale University Press, May 2013
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
<p>Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history. Sam va...
PB:
£13,99
QTY:
Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300187144, Yale University Press, May 2013
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus' age, when Rom...
HB:
£46,00
QTY:
They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...
HB:
£25,00
QTY:
Thomas Bernhard The Making of an Austrian
ISBN: PB: 9780300194609, Yale University Press, January 2013
394 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holoca...
PB:
£24,00
QTY:
Truth or Beauty Science and the Quest for Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300186611, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired – and have sometimes misled – scientists attem...
HB:
£53,00
QTY:
Taming of the Demons Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism
ISBN: PB: 9780300187960, Yale University Press, January 2013
384 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 6 black&white illus.
Taking two early Tibetan texts as his starting point, Jacob Dalton explores the ways in which violence has been integral to the development of Tibetan Buddhism. Paying particular attention to the so-called age of fragmentation, Tibet's dark age that...
PB:
£28,00
QTY:
Theory That Would Not Die How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
ISBN: PB: 9780300188226, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, "The Theory That Would Not Die" is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay...
PB:
£12,99
QTY:
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.
The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...
PB:
£12,99
QTY:
HB:
£20,00
QTY:
Theory of Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780300180831, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlyi...
PB:
£14,99
QTY:
Treason
ISBN: PB: 9780300177756, ISBN: HB: 9780300149586, Yale University Press, May 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Full of sensuality, erudition, and wit, Hedi Kaddour's poetry arises from observation, from situations both ordinary and emblematic – of contemporary life, of human stubbornness, human invention, human cruelty, of the way the past invisibly inflects...
PB:
£19,00
QTY:
HB:
£20,00
QTY: