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Modern Persian, Volume 2 Spoken and Written
ISBN: HB: 9780300100525, Yale University Press, April 2005
480 pp., 24x15.6 cm, 1 map
Although Persian is one of the world's oldest languages, in its modern form it is still spoken by more than forty million people in Iran and by more than twenty million people elsewhere. These volumes provide students from beginning to intermediate l...
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£69,00
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Symbolic Essence and Other Writings on Modern Architecture and American Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300094497, Yale University Press, April 2005
344 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 black&white illus.
Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American culture. This collection of his thought-provoking essays encompasses Jordy's enti...
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£40,00
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Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, Volume One, Books I-V of "Tutte L'opere D'architecttura Et Prospetiva"
ISBN: PB: 9780300113051, Yale University Press, April 2005
528 pp., 28x21 cm
Sebastiano Serlio introduced the principles of classical design to northern Europe and was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. However, his writings have been inaccessible to English language readers until n...
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£55,00
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Macbeth
ISBN: PB: 9780300106541, Yale University Press, March 2005
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey of surrender to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western i...
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£4,50
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Recarving China's Past Art, Architecture, and Archaeology of the "Wu Family Shrines"
ISBN: HB: 9780300107975, Yale University Press, March 2005
512 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 60 colour image, 200 black&white illus.
The "Wu Family Shrines", one of the most important cultural monuments of early China, comprise approximately fifty stone slabs from the so-called Wu cemetery in Shandong province. Depicting emperors and kings, heroic women, filial sons, and mythologi...
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£45,00
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Five Centuries of Hanukkah Lamps from the Jewish Museum A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300106237, Yale University Press, March 2005
424 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 129 colour images, 497 duotones and 163 halftones illus.
The observance of Hanukkah as a time of freedom and miracles resonates strongly with Jews today as in centuries past, and the Hanukkah lamp is central to the celebratory ritual. The importance of the Hanukkah lamp is reflected in the collection of Th...
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£75,00
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American Country House
ISBN: PB: 9780300105056, Yale University Press, February 2005
320 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 75 illus.
From the Vanderbilts' stupendous Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur of a bygone world of wealth and privilege. This ma...
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£35,00
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Communicating in Chinese Listening and Speaking
ISBN: CD: 9780887102066, Yale University Press, January 2005
0 pp., 0x0 cm
"Communicating in Chinese" is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (the activity books are available online as PDFs at www.yalebooks.com/cic), and provides the framework for a proficien...
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£42,00
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Communicating in Chinese Student's Book for Reading and Writing
ISBN: PB: 9780887101786, Yale University Press, January 2005
284 pp., 27.5x21.1 cm
"Communicating in Chinese" is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (the activity books are available online as PDFs at www.yalebooks.com/cic), and provides the framework for a proficien...
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£35,00
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Reading Chinese for Proficiency An Introduction to Signs
ISBN: PB: 9780887101830, Yale University Press, January 2005
0 pp., 28x21.4 cm
This text is designed to facilitate the student's ability to read authentic signs in Chinese. It contains vocabulary, notes with accompanying exercises, self-tests, and authentic illustrations. All signs are given in both traditional and simplified C...
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£15,00
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