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Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780300216806, ISBN: HB: 9780300164985, Yale University Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day – the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums – and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologica...
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£15,99
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£30,00
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American Studio Ceramics Innovation and Identity, 1940 to 1979
ISBN: HB: 9780300212730, Yale University Press, November 2015
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.
In the mid-20th century, ceramics evolved from a utilitarian craft or therapeutic hobby into a well-recognized fine art that continues to occupy a place in today's art world. In this pioneering study, leading scholar Martha Drexler Lynn explores how...
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£55,00
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Wyeth Andrew and Jamie in the Studio
ISBN: HB: 9780300214215, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 24.8x29.2 cm, 200 colour illus.
Father and son artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) are among the most celebrated American realist painters of the 20th century. Despite their similar habits of mind, studio practice, and rural Pennsylvania upbringing, the two a...
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£35,00
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Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy Mathematics in the Real World
ISBN: PB: 9780300190892, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool...
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£14,99
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Letters of C. Vann Woodward
ISBN: HB: 9780300185348, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days a...
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£40,00
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European Clocks and Watches In the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395795, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
256 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
Among the world's great technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time the Metropolitan Museum's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the early...
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£50,00
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Before the Door of God An Anthology of Devotional Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780300216752, Yale University Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
"Before the Door of God" traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry – poetry...
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£16,99
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Design for Eternity Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas
ISBN: PB: 9781588395764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
160 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.
From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...
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£18,99
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Proust The Future's Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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Archaeology of Jerusalem From the Origins to the Ottomans
ISBN: PB: 9780300216622, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
In this sweeping and lavishly illustrated history, Katharina Galor and Hanswulf Bloedhorn survey nearly four thousand years of human settlement and building activity in Jerusalem, from prehistoric times through the Ottoman period. The study is struct...
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£30,00
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