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.
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
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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.
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
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Mateusz Kowalik
Devil's Rib
ISBN: HB: 9788419233509,
Prestel Publishing,
Editorial RM,
July 2023
92 pp., 26,0x19,0 cm, black&white illus.
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
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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.
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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£18.99
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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.
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
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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
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
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Here in Our Auschwitz and Other Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780300116908,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
392 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
392 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
In 1943, the twenty-year-old Polish poet Tadeusz Borowski was arrested and deported to Auschwitz as a political prisoner. What he experienced in the camp left him convinced that no one who survived Auschwitz was innocent.
All were complicit; the ca...
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£22.00
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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.
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
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I Saw a Beautiful Woodpecker
Summer 1939 – The Diary of a Young Boy at the Outbreak of World War II
ISBN: HB: 9783791374864,
Prestel Publishing,
October 2021
128 pp., 20,0x14,0 cm, illustrated throughout
128 pp., 20,0x14,0 cm, illustrated throughout
This award-winning children's book is one eight-year-old Polish boy's evocative diary of the summer of 1939 when World War II was tragically approaching his country.
It is the summer of 1939 in Warsaw, Poland and Michal is an eightyear-old boy just...
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£11.99
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Security Empire
The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300242577,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
416 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War. Molly Pucci delves into the ways their origins diverged from the original Soviet model based on differi...
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£47.50
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