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Eureka How Invention Happens

Weightman Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780300228854, Yale University Press, August 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...

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Medieval

Medieval Europe

Wickham Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300228823, ISBN: HB: 9780300208344, Yale University Press, August 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformativ...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Woods Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

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History of Art

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225716, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2017
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 430 colour and black&white illus.

Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, p...

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Photography

East of the Mississippi Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography

Waggoner Diane, Lord Russell, Raab Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300224016, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 222 colour and black&white illus.

An important reconsideration of landscape photography in 19th-century America, exploring crucial but neglected geographies, practitioners, and themes. Although pictures of the West have dominated our perception of 19th-century American landscape pho...

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History of Art

Michelangelo and Sebastiano

Wivel Matthias, Barbieri Costanza, Baker-Bates Piers, Joannides Paul, Danesi Squarzina Silvia, Goudie Allison, Ede Minna Moore, Sliwka Jennifer, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781857096095, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance. Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851541)....

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History of Art

Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting Inspiration and Rivalry

Wieseman Marjorie E., Waiboer Adriaan, Ducos Blaise, Sluijter Eric Jan, Bakker Piet, Gifford E. Melanie, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222937, Yale University Press, February 2017
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity...

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Political Science

Paradox of Liberation Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions

Walzer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223637, Yale University Press, January 2017
192 pp., 21x14 cm

A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation movements are so often challenged by militant religious revivals Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on de...

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History of Art

Venice and Drawing 1500-1800 Theory, Practice and Collecting

Whistler Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300187731, Yale University Press, January 2017
380 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 130 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was h...

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Contemporary Art

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War

Wolf Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300219180, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2017
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made p...

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