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Thomas Cranmer A Life

MacCulloch Diarmaid

ISBN: PB: 9780300226577, Yale University Press, October 2016
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation – and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. This is the first major biography of him for mo...

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Middle East

Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers The Rise of the Arab Gulf

Miller Rory

ISBN: HB: 9780300192346, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states' stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emir...

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Contemporary Art

Revolutionary Horizons Art and Polemics in 1950s Cuba

McEwen Abigail

ISBN: HB: 9780300216813, Yale University Press, August 2016
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 68 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.

Modernism in Havana reached its climax during the turbulent years of the 1950s as a generation of artists took up abstraction as a means to advance artistic and political goals in the name of Cuba Libre. During a decade of insurrection and, ultimatel...

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Birds

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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History of Art

Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection of Contemporary Art

Mecugni Anna, Basualdo Carlos, Cooke Lynne, Garrels Gary, Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark, Silverman Kaja, Teicher Hendel, Temkin Ann

ISBN: HB: 9780300215236, Yale University Press, July 2016
264 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.

This beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly...

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Poetry

Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millay Edna St. Vincent, Jackson Timothy F., Peppe Holly

ISBN: HB: 9780300213966, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 12 black&white illus.

More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her fi...

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History of Art

National Gallery Catalogues, Volume III Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings: Ferrara and Bologna

Mancini Giorgia, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857093391, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2016
488 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus.

This new volume in the series of National Gallery collection catalogues focuses on 16th-century Bologna and Ferrara. The Gallery holds the most important collection of these paintings outside Italy, including works by Garofalo representing his entire...

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History of Art

Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting The World in the Workbench

Marshall Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300174502, Yale University Press, June 2016
380 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professiona...

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History of Art

Indian Court Painting The Kronos Collection

McInerney Terence, Kossak Steven M.

ISBN: HB: 9781588395900, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2016
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated publication features over 90 important paintings from the predominantly Hindu Rajput tradition of Indian painting, and are highlights from the Kronos Collection, one of the finest holdings of Indian art. These remarkable w...

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Literary Criticism

Curiosity

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300219807, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different...

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