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Painting under Pressure Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence
ISBN: HB: 9780300197976, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 25 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O'Malley analy...
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£50,00
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Russian Full Circle A First Year Russian Textbook
ISBN: HB: 9780300182835, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 30 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.
"Russian Full Circle" is a fresh approach to the Russian textbook. Deliberately "bare-bones" in its design, this textbook allows instructors to deliver in one academic year a full first-year Russian language curriculum. It consists of ten lessons tha...
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£65,00
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According to Our Hearts Rhinelander V. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family
ISBN: HB: 9780300166828, Yale University Press, July 2013
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.
This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. "According to Our Hearts" begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of he...
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£50,00
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Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood
ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.
In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...
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£10,99
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Jennifer Bartlett: History of the Universe Works 1970-2011
ISBN: PB: 9780300197358, Yale University Press, June 2013
104 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 50 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
A critical and commercial success since the 1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) has become one of the most visionary and influential artists of our time. In the words of New York Times critic John Russell, Bartlett's art "enlarges our notion of time,...
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£30,00
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Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation
ISBN: PB: 9780300192537, Yale University Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 colour images, 81 black&white illus.
This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-refor...
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£26,00
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Ireland and the Picturesque Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300185386, Yale University Press, May 2013
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour images, 45 black&white illus.
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and a...
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£45,00
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Edward III
ISBN: PB: 9780300194081, Yale University Press, April 2013
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.
Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by h...
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£20,00
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They Seek a City Chicago and the Art of Migration, 1910-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300184532, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2013
112 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 85 colour images, 10 black&white illus.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers – Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white – flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vi...
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£25,00
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Truth or Beauty Science and the Quest for Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300186611, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired – and have sometimes misled – scientists attem...
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£53,00
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