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Impressionist Children Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300112856, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 150 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.
Images of children and families abound in the works of the French Impressionists, from Claude Monet's portraits of his young sons to Mary Cassatt's endearing images of mother and child. In "Impressionist Children", Greg Thomas offers new perspectives...
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£65,00
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Charterhouse Survey of London: Volume 18
ISBN: HB: 9780300167221, Yale University Press, October 2010
320 pp., 28.6x22.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 200 colour illus.
"The Survey of London" offers this fully illustrated, comprehensive record of London's medieval Charterhouse, including original research, new photography, and previously unpublished inventories. Founded as a Carthusian priory in the fourteenth centu...
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£80,00
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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...
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£57,00
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Building-in-Time from Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion
ISBN: HB: 9780300165920, Yale University Press, October 2010
516 pp., 28x23 cm, 200 black&white illus., 120 colour illus.
This ambitious book is about a way of building that for centuries dominated the making of monumental architecture – yet now not only is it lost as practice, but knowledge of its very existence is consigned to oblivion. In pre-modern Europe, the archi...
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£60,00
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Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780300118025, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 170 colour illus.
With its emphasis on social reform and simplicity in design – bold lines, honest use of materials, and redeeming qualities of handmade goods – the Arts and Crafts movement offered an antidote to the perceived ills of a rapidly changing world and the...
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£50,00
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Virgin Warrior The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
ISBN: PB: 9780300168952, Yale University Press, August 2010
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
France's great heroine and England's great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc's contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that abound about her today. But...
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£11,99
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Berkshire Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300126624, Yale University Press, June 2010
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 illus.
Nikolaus Pevsner described Berkshire as "half home county, half West Country". This revised and comprehensive guide follows its historic boundaries, including the large area transferred to Oxfordshire in the 1970s. The variety of architecture is, in...
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£60,00
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History and the Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300139341, Yale University Press, February 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Arguably the leading British historian of his generation, Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) is most celebrated and admired as the author of essays. This volume brings together some of the most original and radical writings of his career – many hitherto i...
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£30,00
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Defying Empire Trading with the Enemy in Colonial New York
ISBN: PB: 9780300164251, ISBN: HB: 9780300118407, Yale University Press, February 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed...
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£28,00
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£22,50
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Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library
ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...
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£25,00
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