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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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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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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Charleston Fancy
Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
ISBN: HB: 9780300229073,
Yale University Press,
July 2019
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 43 black&white illus.
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America's first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cul...
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£16.99
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Alicja Kwade: ParaPivot
The Roof Garden Commission
ISBN: PB: 9781588396679,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
June 2019
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x11,0 cm, 58 colour illus.
Contemporary artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979) has received international acclaim for her minimalist, large-scale sculptures and installations intended to parse, but not resolve, various scientific and metaphysical conundrums. Kwade's site-specific insta...
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£7.95
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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto
Writing Our History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236729,
Yale University Press,
June 2019
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 7 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 7 black&white illus.
Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...
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