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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
ISBN: HB: 9780300246292,
Yale University Press,
January 2021
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.
In the early medieval West, from North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture. In this fascinating book, Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and tra...
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£30,00
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Lakota America
A New History of Indigenous Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300255256,
ISBN: HB: 9780300215953,
Yale University Press,
November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.
This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty?first century. Pekka Hنmنlنinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter?gatherers and reveals how the...
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£16,99
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£25,00
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Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780913516317,
Yale University Press,
October 2020
224 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 148 black&white illus.
224 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 148 black&white illus.
This volume presents a new look at prehistoric settlement patterns in the Upper Huallaga Basin, Peru, from the Preceramic to the Late Intermediate Period. Though the political climate precluded investigations in this area after the 1960s, Matsumoto i...
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£25,00
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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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£20,00
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Brief Natural History of Civilization
Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
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£20,00
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In Pursuit of Civility
Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300251524,
ISBN: HB: 9780300235777,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour illus.
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 colour illus.
What did it mean to be 'civilized' in Early Modern England?
Keith Thomas's seminal studies "Religion and the Decline of Magic", "Man and the Natural World", and "The Ends of Life", explored the beliefs, values and social practices of the years bet...
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£12,99
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£25,00
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Pocket
A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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£19,99
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Second Careers
Two Tributaries in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300246872,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.
Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...
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£20,00
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Why We Believe
Evolution and the Human Way of Being
ISBN: HB: 9780300243994,
Yale University Press,
January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...
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£20,00
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Arabs
A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
ISBN: PB: 9780300251630,
Yale University Press,
December 2019
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
656 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 4 maps
This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of...
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