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Aubrey Beardsley A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300111279, Yale University Press, March 2016
960 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 1100 black&white illus.
This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) a...
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£175,00
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Becoming Freud The Making of Psychoanalysis
ISBN: PB: 9780300219838, ISBN: HB: 9780300158663, Yale University Press, March 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm
"Becoming Freud" is the story of the young Freud – Freud up until the age of fifty – that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life...
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£10,99
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£18,99
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Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)
ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...
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£45,00
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Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB (SET): 9780300148169, Yale University Press, December 2015
750 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 420 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from...
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£195,00
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Ruth A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300192155, Yale University Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles...
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£45,00
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Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen The Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300215557, Yale University Press, November 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen – the nation's third-largest city – and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's a...
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£60,00
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Revelation A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: PB: 9780300216912, Yale University Press, November 2015
928 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.
In this landmark commentary, Craig R. Koester offers a comprehensive look at a powerful and controversial early Christian text, the biblical Book of Revelation. The author provides richly textured descriptions of the book's setting and language, maki...
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£35,00
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Proust The Future's Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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£16,99
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Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...
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£43,00
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Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's "Other Half" A Complete Catalogue of His Photographs
ISBN: HB: 9780300209167, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 25 colour illus., 375 duotone, 210 black&white illus.
Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigra...
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£40,00
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