Spycraft
Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
ISBN: HB: 9780300267549,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies – from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination.
Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspira...
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£20.00
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods
How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
ISBN: HB: 9780300270082,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping.
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This...
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£25.00
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Ignorance
A Global History
ISBN: PB: 9780300276503,
ISBN: HB: 9780300265958,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day.
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkne...
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£11.99
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£20.00
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Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780300276091,
ISBN: HB: 9780300257946,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind.
Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by ex...
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£10.99
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£20.00
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
ISBN: HB: 9780300259803,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance.
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...
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£30.00
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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780300266535,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to...
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£25.00
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Volcanic
Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: HB: 9780300272666,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
544 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 colour illus.
544 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 colour illus.
A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism.
Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii rev...
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£30.00
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Force
What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
ISBN: PB: 9780300274134,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 47 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 47 black&white illus.
An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force.
Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for...
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£12.99
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Pirates
A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
ISBN: PB: 9780300273335,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 26 black&white illus., 6 maps
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 26 black&white illus., 6 maps
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the "Pirates of...
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£11.99
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Week
A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
ISBN: PB: 9780300271157,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world.
With meticulous archival research that...
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£14.99
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