Franz Boas
In Praise of Open Minds
ISBN: HB: 9780300241235,
Yale University Press,
July 2025
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology.
Franz Boas (1858-1942) is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studie...
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18.99 GBP
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Beyond Boundaries
Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
ISBN: PB: 9780300279979,
Yale University Press,
June 2025
330 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 120 colour illus.
330 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 120 colour illus.
An examination of how engagement with the nuances of Caribbean intellectual thought could reshape art history.
Despite its rich cultural and intellectual heritage, the Caribbean region has often been excluded from art history – along with essential...
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20.00 GBP
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Facing Down the Furies
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
ISBN: PB: 9780300281927,
ISBN: HB: 9780300273533,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 black&white illus.
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 21 black&white illus.
An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves.
In Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus the Tyrant", a messenger arrives to report that J...
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Production and Exchange in Eurasia
In Commemoration of Zeng Lingyi
ISBN: PB: 9780913516355,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
246 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 59 black&white illus.
246 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 59 black&white illus.
Commemorating the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, this volume considers production and exchange within the larger context of early Eurasian societies.
This volume commemorates the life and scholarship of Lingyi Zeng, a PhD candidate in the Dep...
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40.00 GBP
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Lost Gardens of London
ISBN: HB: 9781738487806,
Yale University Press,
October 2024
272 pp., 24,1x16,9 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.
272 pp., 24,1x16,9 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.
"Lost Gardens of London" pays tribute to the evanescence of London's vast and varied garden legacy. Todd Longstaffe-Gowan explores gardens that range in date from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, and from the capital's humble allotments and...
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Late Babylonian Administrative and Legal Texts, Concerning Craftsmen, from the Eanna Archive
ISBN: HB: 9780300271904,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
408 pp., 28,7x21,2 cm, 90 black&white illus.
408 pp., 28,7x21,2 cm, 90 black&white illus.
More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Yuval Levavi and Elizabeth E. Payne present 315 previously unpublished texts held in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum. The texts shed...
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105.00 GBP
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Love for the Land
Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place
ISBN: PB: 9780300280104,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267440,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
288 pp., 13,9x21,5 cm, 24 black&white illus.
288 pp., 13,9x21,5 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A moving exploration of presence and place told through the stories of small-scale farmers who, despite intense adversity, continue caring for their land.
"Love for the Land" explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through c...
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Story of Nature
A Human History
ISBN: HB: 9780300245653,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 colour illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 48 colour illus.
The story of humanity's evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day.
Nature has long been the source of human curiosity and wonderment, and the inspiration for some of our deepest creative impulses. But we are no...
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25.00 GBP
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Monkey to Man
The Evolution of the March of Progress Image
ISBN: HB: 9780300270624,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 7 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 7 colour illus., 75 black&white illus.
The first book to examine the iconic depiction of evolution, the "march of progress", and its role in shaping our understanding of how humans evolved.
We are all familiar with the "march of progress", the representation of evolution that depicts a...
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Provincials
Postcards from the Peripheries
ISBN: HB: 9780300266139,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An enchanting and joyous exploration of life and creativity at the geographical edges of the modern world.
Who is a provincial? In this subversive book, Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmakers, cricketers, tourist guide...
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