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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Whinney Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300053180, ISBN: HB: 9780300053173, Yale University Press, May 1992
522 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 318 colour and black&white illus.

This comprehensive survey of sculpture in Britain from the Reformation to the accession of Queen Victoria aims to shed light on English taste in the period. It examines the family tomb and the portrait bust, the forms of sculpture most favoured in Br...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Highlands and Islands Buildings of Scotland

Gifford John

ISBN: HB: 9780300096255, Yale University Press, January 1992
686 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.

This volume covers the vast area of the Highland region, the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland and highlights buildings and monuments as varied as its landscapes: brochs, cairns and ceremonial settings of standing stones; cathedrals and abbeys, both...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Northumberland Buildings of England

Pevsner Nikolaus, Richmond Ian, Grundy John

ISBN: HB: 9780300096385, Yale University Press, January 1992
704 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.

The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcast...

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Gender Studies

Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

Gilmore David D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300050769, Yale University Press, July 1991
272 pp., 20.8x13.6 cm

In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness – on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality – is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousnes...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

London, Volume 3: North West Buildings of England

Cherry Bridget, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300096521, Yale University Press, January 1991
808 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.

This comprehensive architectural guide encompasses three centuries of metropolitan growth, spanning an area from Georgian St. Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex. Indivi...

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Philosophy

Spirit in Ashes Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death

Wyschogrod Edith

ISBN: PB: 9780300046229, Yale University Press, September 1990
263 pp., 21x14 cm

Contemporary phenomena of mass death – such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz – have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass...

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Japanese

Japanese: The Spoken Language Part 3

Harz Jorden Eleanor, Noda Mari

ISBN: PB: 9780300041910, Yale University Press, August 1990
304 pp., 28x21.5 cm

This third book of "Japanese: The Spoken Language" completes a course in modern spoken Japanese that teaches current usage through drills and functional exchanges. The series is entirely romanized. Accompanying audio and video materials are available...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Glasgow Buildings of Scotland

Williamson Elizabeth, Riches Anne, Higgs Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300096743, Yale University Press, January 1990
720 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 64 illus.

Glasgow has a wide array of architectural treasures: the greatest medieval cathedral in Scotland; fragments of a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century "merchant city"; the well-preserved heart of a planned new town, Blythswood; a city centre dense with...

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Philosophy

Habermas and the Dialectic of Reason

Ingram David

ISBN: PB: 9780300046137, Yale University Press, September 1989
263 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In his magnum opus, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, the distinguished philosopher Jurgen Habermas presented his ideas as a whole, providing the first major defense of his philosophy. David Ingram here summarizes the themes of Habermas's masterwo...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Teaching An Interpretation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

Lampert Laurence

ISBN: PB: 9780300044300, Yale University Press, September 1989
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra – an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Ni...

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