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Vulnerability Thesis Interest Group Influence and Institutional Design
ISBN: PB: 9780300166798, Yale University Press, April 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In the United States, politics is dominated by two large parties whose members must draw votes and contributions from a large fraction of the population and which therefore should be relatively immune from being swayed by any one group. Yet narrow in...
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£37,00
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Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics
ISBN: PB: 9780300159073, Yale University Press, March 2012
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B. C. ? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us...
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£14,99
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Van Gogh Up Close
ISBN: HB: 9780300181296, Yale University Press, February 2012
368 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.
This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career –...
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£45,00
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Virtual Justice The New Laws of Online Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780300177749, ISBN: HB: 9780300141207, Yale University Press, January 2012
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Tens of millions of people today are living part of their life in a virtual world. In places like "World of Warcraft", "Second Life", and "Free Realms", people are making friends, building communities, creating art, and making real money. Business is...
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£23,00
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£25,00
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Virginia Woolf Becoming a Writer
ISBN: PB: 9780300184099, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows", beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her ha...
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£18,00
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Virtual Justice The Flawed Prosecution of Crime in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300183030, Yale University Press, November 2011
338 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Sensational trials obsessively televised and reported by news media have led many Americans to question the effectiveness of their criminal justice system. Do police have the laws they need-or the competence-to do their job? Can juries recognize the...
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£25,00
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Virtual Rivers Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range
ISBN: PB: 9780300183108, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
Sparsely settled mountain areas of the world, such as Colorado's Front Range, give an impression of wild, untouched, and unchanging nature. Yet in many cases mountain rivers that appear to be pristine natural systems actually have been impaired as a...
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£16,00
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Visionary Fictions Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age
ISBN: PB: 9780300184068, Yale University Press, November 2011
210 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
"Visionary" writers, says Edward Ahearn in this original book, seek a personal way to explode the normal experience of the "real", using prophetic visions, fantastic tales, insane rantings, surrealistic dreams, and drug- or sex-induced dislocations i...
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£16,00
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Venice Disputed Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600
ISBN: HB: 9780300176858, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 120 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and members of the public. Written...
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£45,00
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Vauxhall Gardens A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300173826, Yale University Press, May 2011
400 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.
From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commerc...
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£55,00
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