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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...
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£35,00
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We Alone How Humans Have Conquered the Planet and Can Also Save It
ISBN: HB: 9780300251166, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
This personal and thoughtful book by renowned Kenya conservationist David Western traces our global conquest from Maasai herders battling droughts in Africa to the technological frontiers of California. Western draws on a half century of research...
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What Are Biblical Values? What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues
ISBN: PB: 9780300255218, ISBN: HB: 9780300231939, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 21x14 cm
Many people today claim that their positions on various issues are grounded in biblical values, and they use scriptural passages to support their claims. But the Bible was written over the course of several hundred years and contains contradictory po...
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Wondering Jew Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity
ISBN: HB: 9780300252248, Yale University Press, January 2021
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Zionism began as a movement full of contradictions, between a pull to the past and a desire to forge a new future. Israel has become a place of fragmentation, between those who sanctify religious tradition and those who wish to escape its grasp. Now,...
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£25,00
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Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
ISBN: HB: 9780300235081, Yale University Press, December 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how...
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Woman in White Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler
ISBN: HB: 9780300254501, Yale University Press, November 2020
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 170 colour illus.
In 1860 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and Joanna Hiffernan (1839-1886) met and began a significant professional and personal relationship. Hiffernan posed as a model for many of Whistler's works, including his controversial Symphony in White pai...
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£40,00
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World Safe for Democracy Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300230987, Yale University Press, November 2020
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
For two hundred years, the grand project of liberal internationalism has been to build a world order that is open, loosely rules-based, and oriented toward progressive ideas. Today this project is in crisis, threatened from the outside by illiberal c...
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Who Is an Evangelical? The History of a Movement in Crisis
ISBN: PB: 9780300255331, ISBN: HB: 9780300241419, Yale University Press, October 2020
200 pp., 21x14 cm
Evangelicalism is arguably America's most controversial religious movement. Nonevangelical people who follow the news may have a variety of impressions about what "evangelical" means. But one certain association they make with evangelicals is white R...
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Walls Have Ears The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War II
ISBN: PB: 9780300254853, ISBN: HB: 9780300238600, Yale University Press, September 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private...
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What Is a Complex System?
ISBN: PB: 9780300251104, Yale University Press, September 2020
184 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
What is a complex system? Although "complexity science" is used to understand phenomena as diverse as the behavior of honeybees, the economic markets, the human brain, and the climate, there is no agreement about its foundations. In this introduction...
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