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Christianity

Hinduism

Holloway Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 4: 1994-2004

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300225051, Yale University Press, June 2017
480 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 420 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

The fourth volume of the "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne" comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibili...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Oxfordshire: North and West Buildings of England

Brooks Alan, Sherwood Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300209303, Yale University Press, May 2017
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This volume is a fully expanded and revised architectural guide to the greater part of Oxfordshire, based on Jennifer Sherwood's 1970s account, full of new information and with specially commissioned photography.The vernacular architecture of the vil...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Rabbi Akiva Sage of the Talmud

Holtz Barry W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300204872, Yale University Press, April 2017
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

A compelling and lucid account of the life and teachings of a founder of rabbinic Judaism and one of the most beloved heroes of Jewish history. Born in the Land of Israel around the year 50 C.E., Rabbi Akiva was the greatest rabbi of his time and on...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

Hayim Nahman Bialik Poet of Hebrew

Holtzman Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780300200669, Yale University Press, March 2017
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

Olyan Saul M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture

Bernstein Roberta, Zinn Betsy Stepina, Colsman-Freyberger Heidi, Sweeney Caitlin

ISBN: HB: 9780300227420, Yale University Press, March 2017
1500 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 1317 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Architecture

Why X Matters

Why Preservation Matters

Page Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300218589, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement – and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes una...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

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

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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