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Best Technology Writing 2010
ISBN: PB: 9780300165586, Yale University Press, October 2010
288 pp., 21x14 cm
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When "The Best Technology Series" was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make headlines: they define our twenty-first-century lives. In his introduction to "The Best Technology W...
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Andy Warhol
ISBN: PB: 9780300169089, Yale University Press, October 2010
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
In a work of great wisdom and insight, art critic and philosopher Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his earl...
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Voci dal Sud A Journey to Southern Italy with Carlo Levi and His "Christ Stopped at Eboli"
ISBN: PB: 9780300137446, Yale University Press, October 2010
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 47 black&white illus., 12 colour illus.
This textbook for intermediate to advanced level Italian courses employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the culture of the southern Italian region from 1935 to the present. It is structured around Carlo Levi, a 20th-century writer, painter...
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100 Dresses The Costume Institute
ISBN: PB: 9780300166552, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 28 black&white illus., 153 colour illus.
What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminde...
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Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.
This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...
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Bourgeois Frontier French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
ISBN: PB: 9780300168037, Yale University Press, September 2010
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of...
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Sin A History
ISBN: PB: 9780300168099, ISBN: HB: 9780300149890, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spannin...
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Petah Coyne Everything That Rises Must Converge
ISBN: PB: 9780300167702, Yale University Press, September 2010
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 64 colour illus.
Unlike many contemporary artists who focus on social or media-related issues, Petah Coyne (b. 1953) imbues her work with a magical quality to evoke intensely personal associations. Her sculptures convey an inherent tension between vulnerability and a...
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Gustav Stickley and the American Arts & Crafts Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780300118025, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 170 colour illus.
With its emphasis on social reform and simplicity in design – bold lines, honest use of materials, and redeeming qualities of handmade goods – the Arts and Crafts movement offered an antidote to the perceived ills of a rapidly changing world and the...
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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300168143, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...
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