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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25.00 GBP
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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More than three hundred previously unpublished texts from the Yale Babylonian Collection.
Yuval Levavi and Elizabeth E. Payne present 315 previously unpublished texts held in the Yale Babylonian Collection at the Yale Peabody Museum.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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30.00 GBP
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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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Facing Down the Furies
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
ISBN: HB: 9780300273533,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
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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18.99 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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30.00 GBP
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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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Tudor Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300276114,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267969,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 60 colour illus.
288 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 60 colour illus.
The first history of childhood in Tudor England.
What was it like to grow up in England under the Tudors? How were children cared for, what did they play with, and what dangers did they face?
In this beautifully illustrated and characteristically l...
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10.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Continuity and Authority on the Mongolian Steppe
The Egiin Gol Survey 1997-2002
ISBN: PB: 9780913516348,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
288 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 146 black&white illus.
288 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 146 black&white illus.
The first published archaeological survey of the Egiin Gol valley of Mongolia, spanning the last 30,000 years and centering on the integration of local sites and landscape.
This is the first complete intensive regional archaeological survey report...
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40.00 GBP
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Art History and Anthropology
Modern Encounters, 1870-1970
ISBN: PB: 9781606068793,
Getty Publications,
December 2023
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 51 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
272 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 51 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of interactions between these epistemologies, a sc...
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