Herod the Great
Jewish King in a Roman World
ISBN: HB: 9780300228410,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution.
Herod the Great (73-4 BCE) was a phenomenally energetic ruler who took advantage of the chaos of the Rom...
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Why the Museum Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300276855,
ISBN: HB: 9780300259353,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future.
Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in sha...
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£12.99
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Arthur Miller
American Witness
ISBN: PB: 9780300276794,
ISBN: HB: 9780300234923,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights.
Distinguished theater critic John Lahr brings unique perspective to the life of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), the p...
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£16.99
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Henrietta Szold
Hadassah and the Zionist Dream
ISBN: HB: 9780300247787,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Award-winning author Francine Klagsbrun reveals the complex life and work of Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah and a Zionist trailblazer.
Henrietta Szold (1860-1945) is renowned as the founder of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of Ame...
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£16.99
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Little History of Psychology
ISBN: HB: 9780300269949,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
304 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature.
What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come from? Why do our minds sometimes seem to work against us? Psychologists have long attemp...
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£15.99
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Alfred Dreyfus
The Man at the Center of the Affair
ISBN: HB: 9780300254006,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
224 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents.
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus's cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting "Death t...
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£16.99
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Spinoza
Freedom's Messiah
ISBN: HB: 9780300248920,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time.
Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632-1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by...
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Why Surrealism Matters
ISBN: HB: 9780300257090,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
232 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
232 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate.
Why does Surrealism continue to fascinate us a century after Andre Breton's "Manifesto of Surrealism?". How do we encounter Surrealism toda...
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£16.99
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Joshua 13-24
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300265408,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
440 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
440 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
The second installment of Thomas B. Dozeman's authoritative commentary on the book of Joshua.
Following the Pentateuch in the traditional canon, the book of Joshua chronicles the conquest of the Canaanite nations, the distribution of the newly acqu...
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£50.00
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Jonah
A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300206678,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
368 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
368 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
An innovative translation and commentary on the book of Jonah by a trio of award-winning scholars.
The book of Jonah, which tells the outlandish story of a disobedient prophet swallowed by a great fish, is one of the Bible's best-known narratives....
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£70.00
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