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Detroit After Dark Photographs from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts
ISBN: HB: 9780300218428, Yale University Press, November 2016
112 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
An exploration of the tradition of night photography in the city of Detroit by well-known artists from the 1950s until today This book is the first to explore photographic representations of Detroit during the hours from dusk until dawn, featuring wo...
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£25,00
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Proust The Search
ISBN: PB: 9780300224283, Yale University Press, November 2016
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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£10,99
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Developing Expertise Architecture and Real Estate in Metropolitan America
ISBN: HB: 9780300209938, Yale University Press, November 2016
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 163 black&white illus.
Real estate developers are integral to understanding the split narratives of twentieth-century American urban history. Rather than divide the decline of downtowns and the rise of suburbs into separate tales, Sara Stevens uses the figure of the real e...
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£35,00
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Bigot Why Prejudice Persists
ISBN: PB: 9780300223842, Yale University Press, November 2016
248 pp., 20.2x12.8 cm
<p>Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will su...
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£16,99
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Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate Consuming the World
ISBN: PB: 9780300222500, Yale University Press, November 2016
142 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption, yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to the continent: c...
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£16,99
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Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, ISBN: HB: 9780300200706, Yale University Press, October 2016
296 pp., 23x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...
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£28,00
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£65,00
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: PB: 9780300197709, Yale University Press, October 2016
440 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 225 colour illus.
A sumptuously illustrated, encyclopedic chronicle of fashion and its trends, from the 18th to the early 20th century Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. Thes...
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£20,00
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John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion
ISBN: HB: 9780300219302, Yale University Press, October 2016
224 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
A revealing, interdisciplinary exploration of the brilliant visual quotations in the work of the celebrated grand-manner portraitist The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamour and anxiety of his age. In...
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£45,00
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Feast for the Senses Art and Experience in Medieval Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300222951, Yale University Press, October 2016
280 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 241 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
The late medieval world was marked by a culture of refinement and sophistication. The period's media of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork, and enamels – speak volumes about the pleasures of...
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£45,00
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Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...
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£60,00
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