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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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History of Art

Carl Andre Sculpture as Place

Raymond Yasmil, Cherix Christophe, Holmes Brooke, Katz Vincent, Perloff Marjorie, Pierre Arnauld, Rorimer Anne, Tuchman Phyllis, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300191714, Yale University Press, March 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creativ...

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Fiction

Masters and Servants

Michon Pierre, Mason Wyatt

ISBN: PB: 9780300180695, Yale University Press, March 2014
196 pp., 21x14 cm

One of Pierre Michon's most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoin Watteau, Claude Lorrain and Lorentino, a little-remembered disciple o...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Robert Morris Object Sculpture, 1960-1965

Weiss Jeffrey S., Davies Clare

ISBN: HB: 9780300196672, Yale University Press, March 2014
368 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, 200 colour images, 50 duotone illus.

Over the past half-century, American artist and critic Robert Morris (b. 1931) has been a key figure in the history of minimal, post-minimal and conceptual art. Between 1960 and 1965, part of his artistic output consisted of approximately 100 "object...

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General

American Lynching

Rushdy Ashraf H. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...

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Criminology

Jack the Ripper The Forgotten Victims

Begg Paul, Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300117202, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing...

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Photography

Michael Snow Photo-centric

Vlas Adelina, Snow Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300196412, Yale University Press, March 2014
60 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 34 colour images, 2 black&white illus.

Canadian filmmaker and artist Michael Snow (b. 1929) is known as a pioneer of conceptualist and multimedia practice. His seminal film Wavelength (1967), described as a "45-minute zoom", investigates the relationship between time and space, a subject...

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History

Liberty's Dawn A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

Griffin Emma

ISBN: PB: 9780300205251, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...

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History of Art

Veronese

Salomon Xavier F.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095531, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2014
272 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) was one of the great Venetian artists of the Renaissance, whose works were admired for their rich colours and mastery of theatrical narrative. His paintings ranged from decorative fresco schemes and portraits to allegorical...

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Christianity

Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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