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Christianity

Questions on Love and Charity Summa Theologiae, Secunda Secundae, Questions 23-46

Aquinas Saint Thomas, Miner Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300195415, Yale University Press, June 2016
432 pp., 21x14 cm

A fresh translation of quaestiones from the Summa theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, edited by Robert Miner. This volume provides direct access to the medieval theologian's deepest thinking about the supreme goal of human life – blessedness-and the virtue...

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History of Art

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John Singer Sargent Volume 9: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177374, Yale University Press, June 2016
352 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 194 colour illus., 106 black&white illus.

The last in a series of books devoted to the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), this volume covers the figure and landscape works that Sargent produced between 1914 and 1925. The story begins with the artist painting with friends on vacation in...

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Contemporary Art

This is a Portrait If I Say So Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today

Goodyear Anne Collins, Walz Jonathan, Campagnolo Kathleen, Evans Dorinda

ISBN: HB: 9780300211931, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 107 colour illus.

This groundbreaking book traces the history of portraiture as a site of radical artistic experimentation, as it shifted from a genre based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Featuring...

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Music

Music in the Air The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason

Gleason Ralph J., Gleason Toby, Wenner Jann, Scanlon Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300212167, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists, interviewers, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chr...

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Political Science

Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe

Galbraith James K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220445, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro...

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History of Art

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Wilson-Bareau Juliet, Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9780300196269, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x25.5 cm, 354 colour illus.

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre,...

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History of Art

Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France

Dickerson III C. D., Bell Esther, Bailey Colin B., Barry Claire, Bowyer Emerson, Clifford Elise Effmann, Lanoe Frederique, Milavanovic Nicolas, Tallon Alain

ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.

In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...

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Business & Economics

What They Do with Your Money How the Financial System Fails Us, and How to Fix it

Lukomnik Jon, Pitt-Watson David, Davis Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300194418, Yale University Press, June 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing, and often we aren't told that the money has been taken. These billions may be justified if the finance indus...

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History of Art

After Caravaggio

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300218640, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

During the twenty years following Caravaggio's death, his revolutionary precedent inspired the creation of a remarkable body of paintings. Drawing together works by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Valentin de Boulogne, Nicolas Tournier, Nicolas Regnier, Cecco d...

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History of Art

Indian Court Painting The Kronos Collection

McInerney Terence, Kossak Steven M.

ISBN: HB: 9781588395900, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2016
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This splendidly illustrated publication features over 90 important paintings from the predominantly Hindu Rajput tradition of Indian painting, and are highlights from the Kronos Collection, one of the finest holdings of Indian art. These remarkable w...

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