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Christianity

Ten Commandments A Short History of an Ancient Text

Coogan Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300212501, Yale University Press, June 2015
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

<p>In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic status of the Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Comman...

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Nature

Culture Studies

Ginkgo The Tree That Time Forgot

Crane Peter, Raven Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300213829, Yale University Press, May 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when pe...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

My Dear BB... The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

Cumming Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300207378, Yale University Press, April 2015
570 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes avail...

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Fashion

Fashion Victims Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Chrisman-Campbell Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300154382, Yale University Press, March 2015
256 pp., 28x23 cm, 40 colour images, 160 black&white illus.

This engrossing book chronicles one of the most exciting, controversial, and over-the-top periods in the history of fashion: the extravagant reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette in 18th-century France. Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell offers a carefully...

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History of Art

Machine Age Modernism Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Clarke Jay A., Black Jonathan, Kosinski Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211665, Yale University Press, March 2015
80 pp., 23.5x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable B...

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History of Art

James Ensor The Temptation of Saint Anthony

Canning Susan Marie, Nichols Kimberly, Todts Herwig

ISBN: HB: 9780300203912, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
144 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 98 colour illus.

This engaging volume describes the creation and restoration of the extraordinary large-scale drawing The Temptation of Saint Anthony – a work by late 19th-century Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) that is composed of fifty-one sheets of paper co...

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Business & Economics

Hard Times The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

Clark Tom, Heath Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300212747, ISBN: HB: 9780300203776, Yale University Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres...

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Greek & Latin

College Latin An Intermediate Course

Corrigan Peter L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190922, Yale University Press, February 2015
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

By providing a much-needed grammar review, along with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many different teaching preferences, this textbook will help students make the transition from beginning Latin to the intermediate level. The boo...

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History of Art

Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure

Cole Michael W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208207, Yale University Press, December 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence's City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo o...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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