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Jean Schlumberger The Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300238747, Yale University Press, November 2018
120 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 134 colour and black&white illus.
Famous for his inventive interpretations of animal and botanical subjects, artist-jeweler Jean Schlumberger (1907-1987) played a key role in 20th-century fashion with his vibrant sculptural designs for whimsical jewelry and accessories. After beginni...
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£25,00
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Mantegna and Bellini
ISBN: HB: 9781857096347, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2018
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful...
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£35,00
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Holy Resilience The Bible's Traumatic Origins
ISBN: PB: 9780300240009, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr. The Bible's ability to speak to suffering is a major reason why the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity have retained their relevance for thousands of years. In...
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Free Speech on Campus
ISBN: PB: 9780300240016, ISBN: HB: 9780300226560, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14 cm
Hardly a week goes by without another controversy over free speech on college campuses. On one side, there are increased demands to censor hateful, disrespectful, and bullying expression and to ensure an inclusive and nondiscriminatory learning envir...
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£11,99
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Peace at Last A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300233384, Yale University Press, October 2018
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.
November 11, 2018, marks the centenary of the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany ending World War I. While the events of the war and its legacy are much discussed, this is the first book to focus solely on the day itself, examining how t...
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£18,99
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William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum
ISBN: HB: 9780300236651, Yale University Press, September 2018
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 275 colour illus.
"William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum" accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hu...
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£50,00
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Looking at Men Art, Anatomy and the Modern Male Body
ISBN: HB: 9780300112948, Yale University Press, August 2018
272 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 212 colour and black&white illus.
Beginning in 1800, "Looking at Men" explores how the modern male body was forged through the intimately linked professions of art and medicine, which deployed muscular models and martial arts to renew the beau id al. This ideal of the virile body der...
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£45,00
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Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History
ISBN: PB: 9780300118537, Yale University Press, July 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm
The study of legal history has a broad application that extends well beyond the interests of legal historians. An attorney arguing a case today may need to cite cases that are decades or even centuries old, and historians studying political or cultur...
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£32,50
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Migrant Brothers A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity
ISBN: PB: 9780300232943, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 1 black&white illus.
As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigr...
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£8,99
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Almost Home Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
ISBN: HB: 9780300220469, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves revea...
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