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Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs
ISBN: HB: 9780300198652, Yale University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm
This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotia...
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£50,00
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Browned off and Bloody-Minded The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945
ISBN: PB: 9780300226386, Yale University Press, March 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
<p>More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, disc...
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£11,99
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Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300219166, Yale University Press, March 2017
216 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 67 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states – the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-R...
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House of Owls
ISBN: PB: 9780300223422, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 23.5x17.8 cm, 94 black&white illus.
Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western...
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£12,99
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Concrete Body Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
ISBN: HB: 9780300217971, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.
Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Findin...
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£55,00
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Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography
ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.
Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...
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£95,00
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Hardwick Hall A Great Old Castle of Romance
ISBN: HB: 9780300218909, Yale University Press, November 2016
384 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still i...
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£75,00
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Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia
ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.
In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...
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£35,00
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Origins, Invention, Revision Studying the History of Art and Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300218718, Yale University Press, October 2016
232 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 63 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work on It...
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£25,00
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Ballet Lover's Companion
ISBN: PB: 9780300223415, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A richly informed, up-to-date performance guide to more than 140 favorite ballets, from the classical era to the present day This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and crit...
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£18,99
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