Watchers
How the Secret Police Shape the Future
ISBN: HB: 9781805266662,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A chilling global investigation into how modern surveillance states are built and why they endure - from a journalist once spied upon in Cold War Europe.
How much freedom must we surrender to feel safe? Is China's all-round AI-enhanced surveillance...
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20.00 GBP
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Soul
A Brief History of Black Cultural Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300264159,
Yale University Press,
November 2026
160 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
160 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A passionate and illuminating account of soul, the hard-won wisdom shepherded by Black people throughout generations.
How did enslaved Africans turn America's infamous failure into the greatest moral occasion of modern Western life? In this book, Ch...
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20.00 GBP
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Livia
Mother of Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780300275100,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
240 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A bold new portrait of Livia, ancient Rome's first First Lady, who shaped the empire from behind the throne.
Livia was no ordinary Roman woman. As wife of Augustus and mother of Tiberius - the first and second Roman emperors - she stood at the hear...
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20.00 GBP
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Queen, Warrior, Captain
The Story of Artemisia of Caria
ISBN: HB: 9780300270761,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 27 black&white illus.
368 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 27 black&white illus.
The story of Artemisia, queen of the Greek city-state of Halicarnassus, that reveals a version of antiquity in which women played a crucial role.
Herodotus's listeners never doubted that Artemisia I of Caria had commanded a fleet in the naval Battl...
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30.00 GBP
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Women Impressionists and the Land
ISBN: HB: 9781917976138,
Yale University Press,
Paul Holberton Publishing,
October 2026
176 pp., 26,0x24,9 cm, 120 colour illus.
176 pp., 26,0x24,9 cm, 120 colour illus.
The first serious investigation of the landscape production of the women Impressionists.
This is the first book to focus on landscape and nature imagery in the work of the women Impressionists. Rather than concentrating on the domestic subject matte...
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45.00 GBP
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Russia's Rogue Masters
Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884
ISBN: HB: 9780300253177,
Yale University Press,
October 2026
416 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Late imperial Russia's criminal justice system examined through its most prominent public cases.
In this book, lawyer and historian Sergei Antonov examines the largest and most prominent criminal cases following the landmark judicial reform of 1864...
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40.00 GBP
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Medea
A Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300270723,
Yale University Press,
September 2026
256 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 23 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 23 black&white illus.
The story of Medea, a maligned and misunderstood woman of Greek mythology, from one of Britain's foremost classicists.
Mothers who kill their children are universally abhorred but perennially fascinating. In this book, the award-winning scholar Edit...
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20.00 GBP
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Climb On
The Global Culture of Climbing
ISBN: HB: 9783791394329,
Prestel Publishing,
September 2026
240 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 256 colour illus.
240 pp., 30,0x24,0 cm, 256 colour illus.
Filled with epic outdoor photography and a wide spectrum of profiles, this impressive and visually rich volume celebrates the courage, persistence, and sense of renewal that define every climber's journey.
Sensitive to the experiences of beginning c...
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40.00 GBP
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Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life
A History of Sex and Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300287202,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 23 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to Darwin.
What did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of animal courtship painted a comfortingly traditional picture: males were belligerent show-o...
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25.00 GBP
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Change the Wallpaper
Transforming Cultural Patterns to Build More Just Communities
ISBN: PB: 9780300292145,
ISBN: HB: 9780300270228,
Yale University Press,
August 2026
280 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action.
How can ordinary people fight for social justice? Can individual actions change structural ine...
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14.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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