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Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300250886, Yale University Press, March 2020
336 pp., 31.7x22.2 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throug...
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£45,00
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Little History of Poetry
ISBN: HB: 9780300232226, Yale University Press, March 2020
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...
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Marie Cuttoli The Modern Thread from Miro to Man Ray
ISBN: HB: 9780300251319, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 100 colour illus.
Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to p...
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Material Meanings Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780300250817, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 66 colour illus.
This book features 31 objects from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works in a variety of media by artists such as Hans Arp, Lynda Benglis, Liz Deschenes, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly. Rather than spe...
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£30,00
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Why I Am Not a Buddhist
ISBN: HB: 9780300226553, Yale University Press, March 2020
240 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, an...
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£20,00
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Photography's Last Century The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781588397089, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
184 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 134 colour illus.
Beginning with Paul Strand's landmark "From the Viaduct" in 1916 and continuing through the present day, "Photography's Last Century" examines defining moments in the history of the medium. Featuring nearly 100 masterworks, it includes both rare and...
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£35,00
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Radical Sacrifice
ISBN: PB: 9780300251500, Yale University Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21x14 cm
The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter an...
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Siege of Acre, 1189-1191 Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade
ISBN: PB: 9780300251494, ISBN: HB: 9780300215502, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.
The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third Crusade, attracting armies from across Europe, Syria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maghreb. Drawing on a balanced selection of Christian and Muslim s...
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Story of Greece and Rome
ISBN: PB: 9780300251647, ISBN: HB: 9780300217117, Yale University Press, February 2020
392 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 27 colour illus., 5 maps
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Sp...
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They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...
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