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Edward Hopper and the American Hotel
ISBN: PB: 9780300246889, Yale University Press, December 2019
216 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 267 colour illus., 2 maps
The painter, draftsman, and illustrator Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is one of America's best-known and most frequently exhibited artists. Hotels, motels, and tourist homes are recurring motifs in his work, along with streets, lighthouses, and gas stati...
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£30,00
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Emulating Antiquity Renaissance Buildings from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo
ISBN: HB: 9780300225761, Yale University Press, November 2019
352 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways...
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£55,00
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Edith Halpert, the Downtown Gallery, and the Rise of American Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300231007, Yale University Press, October 2019
232 pp., 27.3x22.2 cm, 272 colour and black&white illus.
The question "What is American art?" might conjure the hyperrealism of Raphaelle Peale and William Harnett, the bold graphic style of Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence, or the Precisionist forms of Charles Sheeler. Little known, however, is that such n...
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£40,00
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Elizabethan Globalism England, China and the Rainbow Portrait
ISBN: HB: 9781913107031, Yale University Press, October 2019
336 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.
Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters – from the Caribbean to Asia – created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated...
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£50,00
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
ISBN: HB: 9780300232059, Yale University Press, October 2019
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.
From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for mode...
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£20,00
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Ernest Gimson Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300246261, Yale University Press, October 2019
372 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 320 colour and black&white illus.
This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's significance wi...
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£50,00
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Einstein on the Run How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist
ISBN: HB: 9780300234763, Yale University Press, September 2019
376 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.
In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon h...
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£16,99
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Entrenchment Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies
ISBN: HB: 9780300238471, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Much of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment – efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo. That is why the stakes of contemporary politics are so high. In this wide-ranging boo...
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£22,00
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Essential Guide to Intellectual Property
ISBN: PB: 9780300214420, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This engaging and accessible study looks at the origins, evolution, purpose, and limitations of intellectual property. Detailing how intellectual property affects industry, politics, cultural expression, and medical research, Aram Sinnreich takes a m...
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£17,99
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European Seaborne Empires From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: PB: 9780300205152, Yale University Press, July 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the development of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to re-examine their dev...
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£25,00
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