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Architecture

Cottages Ornes The Charms of the Simple Life

White Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780300226775, Yale University Press, September 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 193 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Tracing the history of cottages ornes (ornamental cottages), this copiously illustrated volume offers an engaging survey of an often-overlooked architectural genre. An invention of mid-18th-century England, these cottages were designed to facilitate...

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Cartography

Travel

Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire

McAleer John, Rigby Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...

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History of Art

Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

Onians John

ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...

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Sign Language

Language of Light A History of Silent Voices

Shea Gerald

ISBN: HB: 9780300215434, Yale University Press, September 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long struggle of the Deaf to be taught in sign languag...

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Architecture

Robbrecht en Daem An Architectural Anthology

Woodman Ellis, Davidts Wouter, Ockman Joan, Gerrewey Christophe van, Cicek Asli, Pattyn Chantal, Driessche Maarten van den

ISBN: HB: 9780300222470, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
800 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 500 colour illus.

Founded in 1975, the Robbrecht en Daem architectural firm has built an extensive and impressive portfolio – architecture and infrastructure projects, interiors and landscapes – in Belgium and across Europe. What links the diverse projects designed by...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Pollock's Modernism

Schreyach Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223262, Yale University Press, September 2017
344 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 45 colour illus.

"Pollock's Modernism" provides a new interpretation of the art of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), one that is based on a phenomenological investigation of the pictorial effects of particular paintings. Focusing on major works that span the artist's care...

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America

Chicago Renaissance Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

Olson Liesl

ISBN: HB: 9780300203684, Yale University Press, September 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 88 black&white illus.

This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how C...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South Buildings of England

Harman Ruth, Pevsner Nikolaus, Sharples Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300224689, Yale University Press, September 2017
924 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 118 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.

This authoritative guide, the companion to "Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North", covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century...

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Fiction

Such Fine Boys

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300223347, Yale University Press, September 2017
208 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettiso...

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Fiction

Sundays in August

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300223330, Yale University Press, September 2017
168 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Stolen jewels, black markets, hired guns, crossed lovers, unregistered addresses, people gone missing, shadowy figures disappearing in crowds, newspaper stories uncomfortably close and getting closer... this ominous novel is Patrick Modiano's most no...

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