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Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: South and West Buildings of England

Orbach Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780300207408, Yale University Press, November 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstandin...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cambridgeshire Buildings of England

Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300205961, Yale University Press, October 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years. Half of the book is devoted to the famous University city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868

Aspinwall Jane Lee, Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 8: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177367, Yale University Press, September 2014
424 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 420 colour images, 58 black&white illus.

After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Buildings of England

O'Brien Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300208214, Yale University Press, September 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey, one of the finest Georgian country houses in England, and the influence of the estate is widely fe...

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Literary Criticism

Little Histories

Little History of Literature

Sutherland John

ISBN: PB: 9780300205312, Yale University Press, August 2014
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

This "little history" tackles a very big subject: the glorious span of literature from Greek myth to graphic novels, from "The Epic of Gilgamesh" to "Harry Potter". John Sutherland is perfectly suited to the task, having researched, taught and writte...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Judges 1-12 A New Translation

Sasson Jack M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300190335, Yale University Press, May 2014
592 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this bountiful new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture's most stirring narratives and verses...

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Architecture

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Cornwall Buildings of England

Beacham Peter, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126686, Yale University Press, May 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Cornwall is a land apart, one which has had a strong sense of its separate identity throughout history. Here are some of the richest and best preserved prehistoric and medieval landscapes in Britain, medieval castles and later coastal defences, and a...

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