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Gary Schneider Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9780300100549, Yale University Press, February 2004
136 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 100 colour illus.
Considered one of the most thought-provoking photographers practising today, South African-born Gary Schneider creates unique luminescent portraits that transform their specific subject matter and probe the enigmatic character of identity. This remar...
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£16,50
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Ghetto Diary
ISBN: PB: 9780300097429, Yale University Press, June 2003
192 pp., 21x14 cm
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to emerge from the Holocaust. A successful paediatrician and well-known author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so ma...
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£14,99
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Beyond Methods Macrostrategies for Language Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780300095739, Yale University Press, February 2003
320 pp., 23.3x15.5 cm, illus.
In this work, B. Kumaravadivelu presents a macrostrategic framework designed to help both beginning and experienced language teachers develop a systematic, coherent and personal theory of practice. His book offers to provide the tools a teacher needs...
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£45,00
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Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania Chronicles from the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944
ISBN: HB: 9780300044942, Yale University Press, September 2002
808 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For five horrifying years in Vilna, the Vilna ghetto, and concentration camps in Estonia, Herman Kruk recorded his own experiences as well as the life and death of the Jewish community of the city symbolically called "The Jerusalem of Lithuania". Thi...
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£70,00
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Seeing Through Paintings Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies
ISBN: PB: 9780300094084, Yale University Press, May 2002
312 pp., 25.9x19.9 cm, 217 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.
This prize-winning book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in Western easel paintings from medieval times to the present.
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£35,00
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Those Delightful Regions of Imagination Essays on George Romney
ISBN: HB: 9780300094589, Yale University Press, February 2002
312 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 105 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.
This collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a wide range of topics relating to English painter George Romney (1734-1802). The contributors to the book address not only Romney's personality and artistic practice, but also...
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Leonardo on Painting Anthology of Writings by Leonardo Da Vinci with a Selection of Documents Relating to His Career as an Artist
ISBN: PB: 9780300090956, Yale University Press, October 2001
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, chiefly illus.
Leonardo's writings on painting – among the most remarkable from any era – were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also...
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£15,99
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Still Alive An Autobiographical Essay
ISBN: PB: 9780300105612, Yale University Press, May 1994
308 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the first English translation of Still Alive, the renowned Polish essayist and theater critic Jan Kott recounts his perilous odyssey through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century, illuminating not only the fat...
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£24,00
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Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300052947, Yale University Press, May 1992
554 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 406 colour and black&white illus.
Presents an overall view of the history and changing character of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, from Rome and Milan to North Africa, Constantinople, Greece and the Balkans and from Egypt and Jerusalem to the villages and monasteries of...
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