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History of Art

Architecture

Cloisters Medieval Art and Architecture

Barnet Peter, Wu Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187205, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2013
204 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The Cloisters' seventy-fift...

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Chinese

Chinese Language and Culture, Part 2 Workbook (Character Writing)

Ning Cynthia Y., Montanaro John S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300161717, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 27.2x21.3 cm

Welcome to "Encounters", a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes...

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History of Art

America

Civil War and American Art

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Caro Close Up

Bryant Julius, Droth Martina, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...

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Landscape Architecture

Design

Carscapes The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England

Morrison Kathryn A., Minnis John

ISBN: HB: 9780300187045, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...

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Contemporary Art

Conversations from the Print Studio A Master Printer in Collaboration with Ten Artists

Zammiello Craig, Hodermarsky Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300179897, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 169 colour illus.

Over his thirty years as a master printer, Craig Zammiello has established himself as a foremost specialist of intaglio printmaking in the United States. Through lively discussions between Zammiello, Elisabeth Hodermarsky, and ten contemporary artist...

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Europe

Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

City of Gold The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus

Childs William A. P., Smith Joanna S., Padgett J. Michael, Caraher William, Najbjerg Tina, Papalexandrou Amy, Serwint Nancy, Weir Mary Grace

ISBN: PB: 9780300174397, Yale University Press, September 2012
400 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 225 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

The modern Cyprian town of Polis Chrysochous – "City of Gold" – lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city – kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the Princeton Cyprus Expe...

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General

Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease

Harrison Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300123579, Yale University Press, August 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Disease and commerce are among the most powerful forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been the single most important factor in the spread of diseases throughout the world. In this...

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