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Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...
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£60,00
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All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...
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£25,00
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Assyria to Iberia A Metropolitan Museum of Art Symposia
ISBN: PB: 9781588396068, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
404 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour illus.
In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum presented Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age, an unprecedented exhibition that offered a comprehensive overview of art, diplomacy, and cultural exchange in the ancient Near East and across the Mediterr...
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£35,00
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Celia, a Slave
ISBN: PB: 9780300197068, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm
The ninth winner of the Yale Drama Series is a searing and powerful drama of slave litigation, injustice, institutional racism, and the rule of law. The winner of the 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competition was selected by Nicholas Wright, for...
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£12,99
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August 1914 France, the Great War, and a Month That Changed the World Forever
ISBN: HB: 9780300208276, Yale University Press, November 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
A haunting portrait of France at war On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks. Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldier...
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£18,99
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French Art of the Eighteenth Century The Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series at the Dallas Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300220179, Yale University Press, November 2016
192 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 134 colour illus.
This beautiful book brings together ten years of research on a superb collection of 18th-century French masterworks, which was formed by the late Michael L. Rosenberg and is now on deposit at the Dallas Museum of Art. This research, originally presen...
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£25,00
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Matthew Barney Otto Trilogy
ISBN: HB: 9780300223699, Yale University Press, November 2016
200 pp., 20.3x28 cm, 250 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
A generously illustrated look at the intricate narrative threads of three of the artist's earliest works, and their continued resonance today Celebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narrativ...
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£45,00
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Roman Portraits Stone and Bronze Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9781588395993, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2016
296 pp., 29.2x25.2 cm, 395 colour illus.
Portraits are among the most compelling artistic records of Greek and Roman culture. In this richly illustrated book featuring all new photography, the 60 portrait heads from the Metropolitan Museum's renowned collection are fully described, and plac...
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£45,00
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Vincent van Gogh Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780300222845, Yale University Press, November 2016
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked. This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1...
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£16,99
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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays
ISBN: HB: 9780300222715, Yale University Press, November 2016
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakes...
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£25,00
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