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Underdog Politics The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives
ISBN: PB: 9780300181036, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the...
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£26,00
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Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them
ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...
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Unique by Design Contemporary Jewelry from the Donna Schneier Collection
ISBN: PB: 9780300208764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2014
136 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 101 colour illus.
Studio jewellery dissolves the modern distinction between decorative and fine arts. The 60 pieces in this lively volume, collected by Donna Schneier and donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, were crested primarily from the early 1960s to the pre...
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£18,99
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Unfamiliar Streets The Photographs of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
ISBN: HB: 9780300192261, Yale University Press, May 2014
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 104 colour illus.
City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, "Unfamiliar Streets" exp...
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£55,00
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Utopia
ISBN: PB: 9780300186109, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's "Utopia" is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and many other subjects. Pree...
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Under the Banyan Tree Relocating the Picturesque in British India
ISBN: HB: 9780300187694, Yale University Press, January 2013
400 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 60 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
"Under the Banyan Tree" is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the British Raj. Romita Ray argues that this concept allowed British artists and writers travelling in India to aestheticize the India...
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£50,00
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Unearthed Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China
ISBN: HB: 9780300179675, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.
In 1908, the American adventurer Robert Sterling Clark organized a scientific expedition to northern China to create a detailed geographical survey, photograph the region and it people, and collect samples of the flora and fauna. Inspired by this imp...
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Unity of Christ Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300178623, Yale University Press, July 2012
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathers – among them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandria – and reexamines their...
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Unpacking My Library Writers and Their Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300170924, Yale University Press, November 2011
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 270 colour illus.
As words and stories are increasingly disseminated through digital means, the significance of the book as object – whether pristine collectible or battered relic – is growing as well. "Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books" spotlights the per...
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Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex
ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm
In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...
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