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Thomas Cranmer A Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300226577, Yale University Press, October 2016
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.
Thomas Cranmer, the architect of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, was the archbishop of Canterbury who guided England through the early Reformation – and Henry VIII through the minefields of divorce. This is the first major biography of him for mo...
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£19,99
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Consolations of Mortality Making Sense of Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300219258, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm
A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion For those who don't believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal li...
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£25,00
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Julian Onderdonk A Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300148152, Yale University Press, October 2016
384 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 1280 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Sumptuously illustrated, this catalogue is the definitive resource on Julian Onderdonk, an American Impressionist artist who lived and worked primarily in Texas. A native of San Antonio, who trained in New York with William Merritt Chase, Onderdonk (...
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£80,00
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First Victory The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
ISBN: HB: 9780300208559, Yale University Press, October 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odds, scored the first major Allied victory of the Second World War Surprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, in 1941 British and Co...
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£25,00
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Corridors of Power: Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar The Politics of Environmental Aid to Madagascar
ISBN: HB: 9780300212273, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
A highly regarded academic and former policy analyst and consultant charts the forty-year history of neoliberalism, environmental governance, and resource rights in Madagascar Since the 1970s, the U.S. Agency for International Development has spent m...
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£50,00
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Fragonard Drawing Triumphant
ISBN: HB: 9781588396013, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.
An exquisitely illustrated volume that emphasizes the importance of drawing in Fragonard's creative process One of the most forward-looking artists in 18th-century France, Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is considered the preeminent draftsman of hi...
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£45,00
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Martin Luther Visionary Reformer
ISBN: PB: 9780300226379, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther. The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious...
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£14,99
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Frank Lloyd Wright and San Francisco
ISBN: HB: 9780300215021, Yale University Press, October 2016
224 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 77 colour illus., 79 black&white illus.
An unprecedented look at the architect's storied relationship with San Francisco and the Bay Area Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) often spent time in San Francisco, which he called "the most charming city in America". Paul V. Turner looks at the archi...
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£45,00
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Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne
ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.
A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...
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£305,00
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Max Beckmann in New York
ISBN: HB: 9781588396006, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
160 pp., 26.1x23.6 cm, 114 colour illus.
An up close and personal look at the life and work of a major 20th-century artist. The prominent German Expressionist painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) is known for allegorical, autobiographical works that capture the doom and grotesquerie of World Wa...
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£30,00
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