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G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...
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Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...
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£35,00
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God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth Light in Islamic Art and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300215281, Yale University Press, November 2015
384 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.
The "Qur'an" makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands. "God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth" explores the integral role of light in Islamic civ...
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£50,00
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Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: PB: 9780300217384, Yale University Press, October 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history – only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun With a long and colorful family history of def...
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£10,99
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Gates of the Lord The Tradition of Krishna Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300214727, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.
The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture-reaching back centuries and still vital today-in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than o...
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German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300198034, Yale University Press, September 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his...
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George Romney A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300209693, Yale University Press, July 2015
960 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus., 1600 black&white illus.
This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734-1802) to his long-overdue position – with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough – as a master of 18th-century British portrait p...
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£180,00
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Germaine Krull
ISBN: PB: 9780300215151, Yale University Press, July 2015
265 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 200 duotone illus.
Germaine Krull (1897-1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During...
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Great Game East India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
ISBN: HB: 9780300195675, Yale University Press, June 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.
Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the Brit...
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£53,00
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Ginkgo The Tree That Time Forgot
ISBN: PB: 9780300213829, Yale University Press, May 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 black&white illus.
Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when pe...
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