ledochowicz.com

Philosophy

Consolations of Mortality Making Sense of Death

Stark Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300219258, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm

A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion For those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal li...

HB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Ecology

Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar

Corson Catherine A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Architecture

Charles Percier Revolutions in Architecture and Design

Garric Jean-Philippe, Bedard Jean-Francois, Sarmant Thierry, Cochet Vincent, Tedeschi Letizia, Lievaux Pascal, Droguet Vincent, Moon Iris, Belhoste Jean-Francois, Dion-Tenenbaum Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300221589, Yale University Press, October 2016
304 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by French architect and interior designer Charles Percier (1764-1838). After gaining an illustrious reputation for supervising the sc...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Africa

Collecting Food, Cultivating People Subsistence and Society in Central Africa

De Luna Kathryn M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218534, Yale University Press, September 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A rich analysis of the complex dynamic between food collection and food production in the farming societies of precolonial south central Africa Engaging new linguistic evidence and reinterpreting published archaeological evidence, this sweeping study...

HB:

£60,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Christianity

Chinese Theology Text and Context

Starr Chloe

ISBN: HB: 9780300204216, Yale University Press, September 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chines...

HB:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Landscape Architecture

Cornelia Parker The Roof Garden Commission

Galilee Beatrice, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588395931, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2016
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 55 colour illus.

Turner Prize-nominated British artist Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is well known for her large-scale, site-specific installations. Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions and is included in collections around the world. Often composed of ord...

PB:

£6,95

QTY:

add books to the list

Business & Economics

Citizens' Wealth Why (and How) Sovereign Funds Should be Managed by the People for the People

Cummine Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780300218947, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

A wide-ranging analysis of a powerful but controversial new economic tool that has rapidly eclipsed the size of the hedge fund market In 2006, Chile teemed with protesters after finance minister Andres Velasco invested budget surpluses from the natio...

HB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Architecture

City of Tomorrow Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life

Ratti Carlo, Claudel Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300204803, Yale University Press, June 2016
184 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linear-cities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their ve...

HB:

£14,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Asia

Colonel Who Would Not Repent The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy

Tripathi Salil

ISBN: HB: 9780300218183, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the Muslim nation carved out of the Indian Subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fou...

HB:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History of Art

Court and Cosmos The Great Age of the Seljuqs

Peacock A. C. S., Canby Sheila R., Beyazit Deniz, Rugiadi Martina

ISBN: HB: 9781588395894, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2016
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 450 colour illus.

Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs – a dynastic tribe whose reach extended from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean – dominated the Islamic world from the 11th to the 14th century. This...

HB:

£50,00

QTY:

add books to the list