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Rembrandt's Themes Life into Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300201536, Yale University Press, August 2014
224 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 60 colour images, 170 black&white illus.
Rembrandt van Rjin (1606-1669) was among the few celebrated old masters who enjoyed considerable freedom in his choice of subject matter. Living and working in the Protestant Netherlands, he painted largely for private patrons and the open market, se...
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£25,00
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Changing Wind Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta
ISBN: HB: 9780300192162, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. "A Changing Wind" is the first histo...
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£49,00
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Michael Snow Photo-centric
ISBN: PB: 9780300196412, Yale University Press, March 2014
60 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 34 colour images, 2 black&white illus.
Canadian filmmaker and artist Michael Snow (b. 1929) is known as a pioneer of conceptualist and multimedia practice. His seminal film Wavelength (1967), described as a "45-minute zoom", investigates the relationship between time and space, a subject...
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£15,00
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Fernand Leger and the Modern City
ISBN: PB: 9780300197662, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 238 colour images, 11 black&white illus.
With his landmark 1919 painting "The City, Fernand Leger" (1881-1955) inaugurated a vitally experimental decade during which he and others redefined the practice of painting in confrontation with the forms of cultural production that were central to...
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£50,00
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Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint
ISBN: PB: 9780300198379, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, emphasizing in particular the important research of the last 30 years. He creates a complete and engaging portrait of the saint, then explores how the me...
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£19,00
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Labyrinth of the Continuum Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686
ISBN: PB: 9780300205053, Yale University Press, August 2013
574 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained...
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£32,00
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Tibet A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300194104, Yale University Press, May 2013
324 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
<p>Situated north of the Himalayas, Tibet is famous for its unique culture and its controversial assimilation into modern China. Yet Tibet in the twenty-first century can only be properly understood in the context of its extraordinary history. Sam va...
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£13,99
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Progress of Love
ISBN: HB: 9780300184938, Yale University Press, January 2013
176 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 105 colour illus.
How do today's artists understand and depict notions of love? As witnessed in this compelling book, they often transcend traditional European romantic notions to create representations of love in less familiar manifestations. The title of this volume...
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£35,00
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Milk A Local and Global History
ISBN: PB: 9780300188127, Yale University Press, July 2012
351 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the ritu...
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£14,99
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Walther Rathenau The Limits of Success
ISBN: HB: 9780300144314, Yale University Press, February 2012
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
This deeply informed biography of Walther Rathenau (1867-1922) tells of a man who – both thoroughly German and unabashedly Jewish – rose to leadership in the German War-Ministry Department during the First World War, and later to the exalted position...
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£18,99
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