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Serial Black Face
ISBN: PB: 9780300211375, Yale University Press, November 2015
128 pp., 22.9x14 cm
The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars wit...
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£14,00
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Drawing Redefined Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle and Jorinde Voigt
ISBN: HB: 9780300215915, Yale University Press, November 2015
88 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus.
"Drawing Redefined" offers an original, critical look at the distinctive role drawing plays in the processes of five influential contemporary artists. For Roni Horn, Esther Klas, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Richard Tuttle, and Jorinde Voigt drawing is an esse...
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£20,00
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God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth Light in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300215281, Yale University Press, November 2015
384 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The "Qur'an" makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands. "God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth" explores the integral role of light in Islamic civ...
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£50,00
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Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.
This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...
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£25,00
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Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen The Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300215557, Yale University Press, November 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen – the nation's third-largest city – and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's a...
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£60,00
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Brazil The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300216974, ISBN: HB: 9780300165609, Yale University Press, November 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India and Chi...
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£11,99
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Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II
ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...
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£15,99
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In Front of Saint Patrick's Cathedral
ISBN: HB: 9780300215175, Yale University Press, November 2015
96 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 77 duotone illus.
American photographer Donald Blumberg (b. 1935) began his career making black-and-white photographs of the streets and people of New York. He first gained national attention and widespread recognition for his 1965-67 series In Front of Saint Patrick'...
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£30,00
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Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple
ISBN: HB: 9780300169126, Yale University Press, November 2015
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 97 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.
The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converte...
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£55,00
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Income Inequality Why it Matters and Why Most Economists Didn't Notice
ISBN: HB: 9780300209587, Yale University Press, November 2015
168 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Prevailing economic theory attributes the 2008 crash and the Great Recession that followed to low interest rates, relaxed borrowing standards, and the housing price bubble. After careful analyses of statistical evidence, however, Matthew Drennan disc...
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£40,00
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