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Network Power The Social Dynamics of Globalization

Singh Grewal David

ISBN: PB: 9780300151343, Yale University Press, June 2009
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of imperson...

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Contemporary Art

Outside In Chinese x American x Contemporary Art

Silbergeld Jerome, Ching Dora C. Y., Lim Michelle, Liu Cary Y., Seiffert Gregory, Wishart Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300122084, Yale University Press, April 2009
272 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 215 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art world is currently enthralled with contemporary Chinese art. This thoughtful book argues, however, that American audiences have been exposed only to a narrow range of what is available – with the majority of exposure having been given to avan...

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Polonica

Caviar and Ashes A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968

Shore Marci

ISBN: PB: 9780300143287, Yale University Press, March 2009
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

"In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska". Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemiansk...

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Contemporary Art

Disappearance of Objects New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City

Shannon Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300137064, Yale University Press, February 2009
240 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 48 colour images, 141 black&white illus.

In the years around 1960, a rapid process of deindustrialization profoundly changed New York City. At the same time, massive highway construction, urban housing renewal, and the growth of the financial sector altered the city's landscape. As the new...

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History of Art

John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur

Sicca Cinzia Maria, Baker Christopher, Borgioli Cristina, Connor Bulman Louisa M., Capitanio Antonella, Collareta Marco, Davidson Peter, Freddolini Francisco, Giometti Cristiano, Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.

This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...

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History of Art

Picturing the Bible The Earliest Christian Art

Spier Jeffrey, Kessler Herbert L., Fine Steven, Jensen Robin Margaret, Deckers Johannes G., Charles-Murray Mary

ISBN: PB: 9780300149340, Yale University Press, January 2009
328 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 251 colour images, 52 black&white illus.

"Picturing the Bible" explores the vast tradition of Christian art at its very beginnings in the third century A.D., just as Christianity was emerging from its outlawed, clandestine status to become the state religion of the Roman Empire. What images...

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Contemporary Art

Paris Portraits Artists, Friends, and Lovers

Silver Kenneth E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300145434, Yale University Press, September 2008
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 45 full page colour, 125 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits – Fauve, Cubist,...

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History of Art

Painting Out of the Ordinary Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

Solkin David H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140613, Yale University Press, July 2008
384 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, London's art world was taken by storm by a new generation of painters, whose novel approach to the depiction of everyday life critics loudly trumpeted as a sign of the nation's cultural pre-eminence. Led by the p...

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Fiction

Richard III

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300122022, Yale University Press, May 2008
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. Richard III, Shakespeare's long chronicle of Richard's m...

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Film Studies

Hitchcock's Music

Sullivan Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300136180, Yale University Press, May 2008
384 pp., 15.6x23.4 cm, 30 black&white illus.

For half a century Alfred Hitchcock created films full of gripping and memorable music. Over his long career he presided over more musical styles than any director in history and ultimately changed how we think about film music. This book is the firs...

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