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Bentu Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation
ISBN: PB: 9780300222388, Yale University Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.6x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. View...
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£30,00
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Between Truth and Time A History of Soviet Central Television
ISBN: PB: 9780300208481, ISBN: HB: 9780300208436, Yale University Press, August 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews,...
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£25,00
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£65,00
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Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600
ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...
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£50,00
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Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay
ISBN: HB: 9780300213966, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 12 black&white illus.
More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her fi...
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£30,00
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Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm
What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...
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£44,00
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Journeys from Xanadu Asian Jewelry and Ritual Objects from the Barbara and David Kipper Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300214840, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.
This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects from across Asia offer a material record of vanishing...
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£45,00
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First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...
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£44,00
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity The Essential Texts
ISBN: PB: 9780300196788, Yale University Press, July 2016
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.
Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or...
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£25,00
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Where the Gods Are Spatial Dimensions of Anthropomorphism in the Biblical World
ISBN: HB: 9780300209228, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The issue of how to represent God is a concern both ancient and contemporary. In this wide-ranging and authoritative study, renowned biblical scholar Mark Smith investigates the symbols, meanings, and narratives in the Hebrew Bible, Ugaritic texts, a...
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£60,00
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Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection of Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300215236, Yale University Press, July 2016
264 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 220 colour illus.
This beautiful volume documents a historic gift of contemporary art from the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The gift, comprising nearly 100 works, includes masterpieces by luminaries such as Ellsworth Kelly...
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£45,00
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