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History of Art

Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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Design

Contemporary Art

Donald Judd

Raskin David

ISBN: PB: 9780300228687, Yale University Press, September 2017
220 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 110 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This pioneering, critically acclaimed book, originally published in 2010 and now available in paperback, is an authoritative and enlightening guide to a wide array of works by the great American artist Donald Judd (1928-1994). Showcasing the entire b...

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America

Revolution Against Empire Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence

Rivage Justin du

ISBN: HB: 9780300214246, Yale University Press, August 2017
396 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation "Revolution Against Empire" sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political a...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Biography & Memoires

Last Days of Stalin

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300228847, ISBN: HB: 9780300192223, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin's murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and wa...

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Philosophy

In Praise of Forgetting Historical Memory and its Ironies

Rieff David

ISBN: PB: 9780300227109, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 21x14 cm

The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly abs...

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Ancient World

Military

Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta The Persian Challenge

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227093, Yale University Press, May 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was responsible for the i...

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History of Art

Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago Highlights of the Collection

Rondeau James

ISBN: HB: 9780300225723, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2017
176 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 170 colour illus.

An updated selection of key paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring works from around the globe and dating from ancient Egypt to the present day. The Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most beloved and important museums in the world,...

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General

Sincerity After Communism A Cultural History

Rutten Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300213980, Yale University Press, March 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a "new sincerity" in literature, media, art, design, fa...

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History of Art

Australia's Impressionists

Riopelle Christopher, Bonyhady Tim, Goudie Allison, Thomas Sarah, Tunnicliffe Wayne, Taylor Alex J.

ISBN: HB: 9781857096125, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2017
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 70 colour illus.

Australia's Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell. All were key players in a distinctively Australian art movement that drew on influences ranging from Whistler's subtle Noctur...

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