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Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300114652, Yale University Press, January 2011
1600 pp., 27.7x21.8 cm, 752 black&white illus.
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...
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£45,00
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Among the Gentiles Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780300168105, Yale University Press, October 2010
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The question of Christianity's relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity's historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity's even mor...
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£20,00
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Atmosphere of Heaven The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes an His Sons of Genius
ISBN: PB: 9780300168914, Yale University Press, August 2010
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
At the Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, founded in the closing years of the eighteenth century, dramatic experiments with gases precipitated not only a revolution in scientific medicine but also in the history of ideas. Guided by the energy of maver...
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£15,00
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Print in Early Modern England An Historical Oversight
ISBN: HB: 9780300136975, Yale University Press, May 2010
400 pp., 32x24.5 cm, 270 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.
The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically, and this remarkable book rectifies a major oversight in the history of English visual art. The book provides an iconographic survey of the sin...
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Christen Kobke Danish Master of Light
ISBN: HB: 9780300166637, Yale University Press, April 2010
128 pp., 27.4x22.8 cm, 85 colour illus.
Christen Kobke (1819-1848) was arguably the greatest painter of Denmark's "Golden Age", the period of the nation's supreme artistic achievement. He had the remarkable ability to invest the simplest corner of town or countryside with charm and delicac...
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£40,00
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Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
ISBN: PB: 9780300164411, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 21x14 cm
Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have laboured to uncover the facts behind Chambers' shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948 – that Alger Hiss, a former ri...
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£26,00
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Framing the West The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan
ISBN: HB: 9780300158915, Yale University Press, March 2010
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 1 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.
The image of the untamed American West persists as one of that country's most enduring cultural myths, and few photographers have captured more compelling images of the frontier than Timothy H. O'Sullivan. Trained under Mathew Brady, O'Sullivan accom...
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£55,00
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First and Second Letters to Timothy
ISBN: HB: 9780300139884, Yale University Press, December 2007
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The letters of Paul to Timothy, one of his favorite delegates, often make for difficult reading in today's world. They contain much that make modern readers uncomfortable, and much that is controversial, including pronouncements on the place of women...
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Letter of James
ISBN: PB: 9780300139907, Yale University Press, December 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
"The Letter of James" is one of the most significant, yet generally overlooked, New Testament books. Because Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation, disliked this letter for its emphasis on good deeds, the book has come to be viewed as b...
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£30,00
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Juan Van Der Hamen Y Leon and the Court of Madrid
ISBN: HB: 9780300113181, Yale University Press, November 2005
432 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 125 colour images, 125 black&white illus.
The artistic life of the Spanish court in the 1620s, once depicted as a drab and featureless backdrop against which to depict the genius of Velazquez, was actually one of the most creative and dynamic periods of foment of the entire seventeenth centu...
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£60,00
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