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Simulacra
ISBN: PB: 9780300223965, ISBN: HB: 9780300223972, Yale University Press, May 2017
104 pp., 19x15.2 cm
A fresh and rebellious poetic voice, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews's superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power, insight, and...
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£14,99
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Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth Restoring Our Democratic Ideals
ISBN: HB: 9780300222890, Yale University Press, April 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A preeminent scholar explores the evolution of the Christian worldview and argues that it no longer offers a satisfactory vision for our democratic, multicultural society. This book is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian h...
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£25,00
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Another World Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300219067, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 166 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
The remarkable story of the stylistic, cultural, and technical innovations that drove the surge of comics, caricature, and other print media in 19th-century Europe. Taking its title from the 1844 visionary graphic novel by J. J. Grandville, this gro...
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£50,00
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Pol Bury Time in Motion
ISBN: HB: 9780300229127, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2017
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 110 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Pol Bury (1922-2005) was a painter, sculptor, jewelry designer, writer, and graphic artist, but is perhaps best known to the general public for his fountains and sculpture in public spaces throughout the world. Acclaimed as one of the first proponent...
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£40,00
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Biblical Truths The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300222838, Yale University Press, April 2017
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A leading biblical scholar's landmark work challenges the historical realism that has dominated the discipline for more than two centuries. How can a modern person, informed by science and history, continue to recite the traditional creeds and confe...
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Babies of Technology Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child
ISBN: HB: 9780300215878, Yale University Press, April 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Millions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents. But alarmingly, scarce attention has been paid to the lax regulations that have made the U.S. a ma...
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£25,00
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Irving Penn Centennial
ISBN: HB: 9781588396181, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
372 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 365 colour illus.
Irving Penn (1917-2009) was among the most esteemed and influential photographers of the 20th century. Over the course of a nearly seventy-year career, he mastered a pared-down aesthetic of studio photography that is distinguished for its meticulous...
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£55,00
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Mountains of Parnassus
ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...
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£12,99
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Art and Nature in the Middle Ages
ISBN: PB: 9780300227055, Yale University Press, March 2017
136 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 115 colour illus.
This splendidly illustrated book explores the universal and multifaceted theme of nature as manifested in Western European art of the Middle Ages. Fascinating essays consider the concept in the context of medieval philosophy, theology, and poetry. Th...
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£27,50
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Women of Abstract Expressionism
ISBN: HB: 9780300208429, Yale University Press, February 2017
208 pp., 30.5x54 cm, 144 colour illus.
The artists Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and many other women played major roles in the development of Abstract Expressionism, which flourished in New York and San Francisco in the 194...
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