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Still Life Before Still Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300190175, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 27x22.2 cm, 212 colour illus.
This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genre beginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Eks...
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£35,00
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Amos A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300178784, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculat...
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£50,00
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Mark Dion Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
ISBN: HB: 9780300224078, Yale University Press, October 2017
216 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus.
The first book in two decades to consider the entire oeuvre of Mark Dion (b. 1961), this volume examines thirty years of the American artist's pioneering inquiries into how we collect, interpret, and display nature. Part of a generation of artists ex...
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Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...
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£30,00
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Innovation Illusion How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard
ISBN: PB: 9780300230475, ISBN: HB: 9780300217407, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious t...
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£20,00
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Only Game in Town Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
ISBN: PB: 9780300222630, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white figs.
An incisive analysis of the state of the global economy and what the future holds. Surrounded by sluggish growth, high rates of unemployment, rising inequality, growing financial instability and increased social tensions, pessimism about our future a...
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£12,99
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New American Sculpture, 1914-1945 Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
ISBN: PB: 9780300226218, Yale University Press, April 2017
224 pp., 28.9x24.8 cm, 149 colour illus.
"A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945" is the first publication to situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social c...
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Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...
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£25,00
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William Hogarth A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300221749, Yale University Press, November 2016
432 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 390 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.
William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings, pai...
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£95,00
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Doris Salcedo The Materiality of Mourning
ISBN: HB: 9780300222517, Yale University Press, November 2016
196 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.
A compelling look at Doris Salcedo's works from the past fifteen years, exploring how the artist challenges not only the limits of the materials she uses but also the traditions of sculpture itself Colombian sculptor and installation artist Doris Sal...
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