Shanghai
The Story of China's Most Dynamic City
ISBN: HB: 9780300270631,
Yale University Press,
June 2026
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 maps
352 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 25 colour illus., 3 maps
A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries.
Home to 25 million people, Shanghai is the most populous and wealthiest city in China. A meeting point between China and the wi...
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25.00 GBP
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Capri
Historical Sketches
ISBN: HB: 9789190021798,
Yale University Press,
Stolpe Publishing,
April 2026
264 pp., 24,0x19,5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
264 pp., 24,0x19,5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.
Capri is famous for its magical beauty but also fabled for the many fascinating personalities who journeyed there. In Roman antiquity, the island was an imperial residence, which later fell into a Sleeping Beauty slumber given its inaccessibility. Wh...
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30.00 GBP
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: PB: 9780300286915,
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542,
Yale University Press,
March 2026
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history.
The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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20.00 GBP
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Dead Sea
A 10,000-Year History
ISBN: PB: 9780300286878,
Yale University Press,
January 2026
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 4 maps
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus., 4 maps
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores.
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters ar...
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12.99 GBP
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Walking Rome's Waters
ISBN: PB: 9780300276374,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
344 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm, 124 colour illus., 26 black&white illus.
344 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm, 124 colour illus., 26 black&white illus.
An engaging guide to the waterways of Rome and their role in shaping the city's culture, history, and landscape.
Written by a leading expert on the water infrastructure of Rome, this grand tour offers a new way to appreciate the history, geology, a...
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25.00 GBP
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Madrid
A New Biography
ISBN: PB: 9780300286267,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
480 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 maps
480 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 16 colour illus., 2 maps
The miraculous story of Madrid - how a village became a great world city.
For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the "Reconqui...
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12.99 GBP
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Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens' London
ISBN: PB: 9780300279344,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years.
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since th...
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11.99 GBP
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Stone Circles
A Field Guide
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300235982,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 21,6x14,3 cm, 147 colour illus., 8 maps
448 pp., 21,6x14,3 cm, 147 colour illus., 8 maps
The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland.
From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone circles of our prehistoric ancestors. Although t...
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30.00 GBP
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Liberty over London Bridge
A History of the People of Southwark
ISBN: HB: 9780300272208,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour and black&white illus., 2 maps
The first complete history of Southwark, London's stubbornly independent community over the Thames.
Southwark's fortunes have always been tied to those of the City of London across the river. But from its founding in Roman times through to flourish...
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Wartime Notebooks
France, 1940-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300176711,
Yale University Press,
November 2018
704 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
704 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress.
When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied Fr...
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45.00 GBP
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