Free Radicals How a Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300282610, Yale University Press, June 2025
384 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The stranger-than-fiction story of the Enlightenment visionaries who discovered the unexpected effects of inhaling nitrous oxide. At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, England, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic exp...
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11.99 GBP
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Manga A New History of Japanese Comics
ISBN: HB: 9780300280944, Yale University Press, June 2025
256 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 35 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day. The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop culture, influencing film, visual art, video games,...
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30.00 GBP
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Magic Books A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts
ISBN: HB: 9780300244434, Yale University Press, March 2025
368 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 66 colour illus.
A fascinating and highly original history of medieval magic told through twenty key illuminated manuscripts. Medieval Europe was preoccupied with magic. From the Carolingian Empire to Renaissance Italy and Tudor England, great rulers, religious fig...
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30.00 GBP
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542, Yale University Press, February 2025
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history. The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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20.00 GBP
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They Flew A History of the Impossible
ISBN: PB: 9780300280074, Yale University Press, January 2025
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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16.99 GBP
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Dead Sea A 10,000 Year History
ISBN: HB: 9780300259421, Yale University Press, January 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 colour illus., 4 maps
A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores. The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters ar...
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25.00 GBP
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Whose Language Is English?
ISBN: HB: 9780300264050, Yale University Press, November 2024
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 5 black&white illus.
An exhilarating new account of the English language, from British colonialism to the age of social media, emphasizing dynamism and democratization. Whose language is English? Although we often think of it as native to one place, today there are man...
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20.00 GBP
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Under Cover of Darkness Murders in Blackout London
ISBN: HB: 9780300270051, Yale University Press, October 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 16 black&white illus., 1 map
A gripping new history of London during the Blackout – revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness. Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not...
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22.00 GBP
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Vienna How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300279368, Yale University Press, August 2024
464 pp., 19,6x12,7 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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12.99 GBP
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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
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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