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Judaism

House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Chapman Cynthia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Peggy Guggenheim The Shock of the Modern

Prose Francine

ISBN: PB: 9780300224290, Yale University Press, November 2016
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) broug...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Hogarth A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings

Einberg Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300221749, Yale University Press, November 2016
432 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 390 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was among the first British-born artists to rise to international recognition and acclaim and to this day he is considered one of the country's most celebrated and innovative masters. His output encompassed engravings, pai...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Proust The Search

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
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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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Julian Onderdonk A Catalogue Raisonne

Halff Harry, Halff Elizabeth, Neff Emily Ballew

ISBN: HB: 9780300148152, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 1280 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Sumptuously illustrated, this catalogue is the definitive resource on Julian Onderdonk, an American Impressionist artist who lived and worked primarily in Texas. A native of San Antonio, who trained in New York with William Merritt Chase, Onderdonk (...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Pevsner's Architectural Glossary

Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300223682, Yale University Press, September 2016
144 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 32 colour illus., 144 black&white illus.

With even more entries and more vocabulary words, this second edition of "Pevsner's Architectural Glossary" covers the complete range of technical terms used in the storied guides. Pevsner's famous designations E. E. and Perp. are among the terms cle...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Where the Gods Are Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World

Smith Mark S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209228, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, a...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Merritt Chase A Modern Master

Smithgall Elsa, Bourguignon Katherine M., Ginex Giovanna, Hirshler Erica E., Davis John, Baker D. Frederick

ISBN: HB: 9780300206265, Yale University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

The history of modern art owes a great debt to William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), one of America's influential artists and educators. Chase was a leading member of the international artistic avant-garde and was best known for his mastery of a wide ra...

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