National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300253108,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
488 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 2 black&white illus.
A deeply researched, fully updated edition of "The National Security Constitution" that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy.
Since the beginning of the American Republic, a...
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35.00 GBP
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Nature, Culture, and Race in Colonial Cuba
ISBN: HB: 9780300267945,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
A new and necessary examination of how nineteenth-century Cuban white elites viewed the natural world, material culture, and political power as intertwined.
In the decades before the Cuban wars of independence, white elites exploited the island's n...
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50.00 GBP
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Smithsonian Trees of North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300185218,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
800 pp., 26,7x19,1 cm, 3626 colour illus.
800 pp., 26,7x19,1 cm, 3626 colour illus.
An indispensable illustrated source of information for hundreds of species of North American trees.
This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented apprai...
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60.00 GBP
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The French Seventies
Yale French Studies, Number 143
ISBN: PB: 9780300274240,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
208 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now.
Number 143 of Yale French Studies, "The French Seventies", reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a pe...
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60.00 GBP
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My Egypt Archive
ISBN: PB: 9780300276800,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260991,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
180 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm
A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt.
An unmatched contemporary history of authoritarian politics and an unflinching examination of the politics of h...
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15.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Nelson's Pathfinders
A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of British Seapower
ISBN: HB: 9780300273762,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 41 black&white illus., 12 maps
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 41 black&white illus., 12 maps
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25.00 GBP
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Plastic Capitalism
Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
ISBN: HB: 9780300247343,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process.
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar Amer...
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25.00 GBP
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Problem of the Christian Master
Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery
ISBN: HB: 9780300266597,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A bold rereading of Augustine of Hippo's political thought in the wake of Black Lives Matter.
Over the last two decades, scholars have made a striking return to the resources of the Augustinian tradition to theorize citizenship, virtue, and the pla...
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35.00 GBP
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Roe
The History of a National Obsession
ISBN: PB: 9780300276862,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266108,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history.
What explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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14.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Second Chances
Shakespeare and Freud
ISBN: HB: 9780300276367,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imaginati...
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20.00 GBP
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