Glorious Lessons
John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300259704,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment.
John Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand – he served as ai...
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20.00 GBP
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Lost Writings
Two Novels by Mina Loy
ISBN: PB: 9780300269420,
ISBN: HB: 9780300276121,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 9 black&white illus.
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Two never-before-published novels by Mina Loy, the celebrated modernist poet, artist, and feminist.
Mina Loy (1882-1966) is an essential figure of the European and American modernist avant-garde. A groundbreaking writer of poetry, novels, essays, p...
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14.99 GBP
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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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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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Overflow, Afterglow
New Work in Chromatic Figuration
ISBN: PB: 9780300275797,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
96 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
96 pp., 27,9x21,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
An investigation of how seven cutting-edge contemporary artists use high-key, kaleidoscopic color to express the hybrid and multiform nature of identity.
As contemporary artists reckon with the immense destructive forces of today's world, including...
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25.00 GBP
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Petrit Halilaj
ISBN: PB: 9781588397768,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
July 2024
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
64 pp., 18,4x10,8 cm, 40 colour illus.
This exploration of Petrit Halilaj's site-specific installation reflects the artist's personal experience as a refugee of war and the universal hopes and fears captured in children's drawings.
Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kosovo) is known for installat...
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7.95 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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