Nighttime Butterfly A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839, Yale University Press, September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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25.00 GBP
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James Baldwin The Life Album
ISBN: HB: 9780300262209, Yale University Press, May 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life. James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, inte...
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18.99 GBP
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Atlas of Finance Mapping the Global Story of Money
ISBN: HB: 9780300253054, Yale University Press, September 2024
240 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 98 colour illus.
A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history. From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-f...
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30.00 GBP
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Year in the Castle A Look and Find Fantasy Story Book
ISBN: HB: 9783791375656, Prestel Publishing, March 2024
32 pp., 30,0x22,3 cm, 32 colour illus.
These detailed spreads charting the course of a year in a fantasy medieval castle are packed to the brim with charming characters and hilarious adventures that young readers will return to again and again. There's a lot going on in the castle of Kin...
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14.99 GBP
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Mateusz Kowalik Devil's Rib
ISBN: HB: 9788419233509, Editorial RM, July 2023
92 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, black&white illus.
"Devil's Rib" tells of the radical but inspiring choice some people make to live in the wildness. Mateusz Kowalik, through a very curated selection of images, takes us to this longed-for territory as well as revealing its flip side. Modern hermits th...
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35.00 EUR
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Lost Future And How to Reclaim It
ISBN: HB: 9780300262629, Yale University Press, January 2023
288 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A timely and compelling argument for a revitalized and restructured global politics. The future seems increasingly uncertain. Our democracies are failing to prevent financial crises, energy shortages, climate change, and war – so how can we look to...
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19.99 GBP
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Story of Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300246063, Yale University Press, November 2022
360 pp., 24,1x19,6 cm, 54 colour illus., 115 black&white illus.
An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field's eminent authors. In this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by tech...
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25.00 GBP
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Empire of Destruction A History of Nazi Mass Killing
ISBN: HB: 9780300234053, Yale University Press, October 2022
400 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 1 map
Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis'...
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25.00 GBP
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Memory Unearthed The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross
ISBN: PB: 9780300264111, Yale University Press, February 2022
244 pp., 29,2x25,4 cm, 350 colour illus.
Emotionally resonant photographs of everyday life in the Jewish Lodz Ghetto taken during WWII. From 1941 to 1944, the Polish Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-1991) was a member of an official team documenting the implementation of Nazi policies...
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25.00 GBP
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