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Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300194555, Yale University Press, May 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 94 black&white illus.
This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov cr...
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Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt
ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...
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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950
ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.
In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...
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Fairy Tale Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9780300218022, Yale University Press, March 2016
264 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 35 black&white illus.
Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and acces...
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For God and Kaiser The Imperial Austrian Army, 1619-1918
ISBN: PB: 9780300219678, Yale University Press, March 2016
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 7 maps
Among the finest examples of deeply researched and colorfully written military history, Richard Bassett's "For God and Kaiser" is a major account of the Habsburg army told for the first time in English. Bassett shows how the Imperial Austrian Army, t...
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£16,99
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: HB: 9780300212266, Yale University Press, November 2015
440 pp., 33x28 cm, 225 colour illus.
Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...
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£80,00
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Fashion Underground The World of Susanne Bartsch
ISBN: HB: 9780300214628, Yale University Press, October 2015
168 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
Susanne Bartsch has been the queen of New York City nightlife since the 1980s when she first became famous for spectacular parties, where a diverse crowd brought fashion to the level of performance art. Her most important party was undoubtedly the 19...
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Frederic Church The Art and Science of Detail
ISBN: HB: 9780300208375, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.
Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention...
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From Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Landscape Painting in the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780300211504, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 260 colour illus.
As nations in the Americas gained independence in the early 19th century, a pictorial landscape tradition emerged. By 1840, landscape painting had become the primary medium for articulating conceptions of land and nation in the development of North a...
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 2: Art in Context
ISBN: PB: 9780300217087, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 193 colour illus., black&white illus.
"Facture" presents the latest conservation research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, spanning the early Renaissance through the present and encompassing a range of media. Volume 2 examines great art of two very different...
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