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History of Art

James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables

Ledbury Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300208139, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a...

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Psychology

Jealousy

Toohey Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300189681, Yale University Press, October 2014
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 8: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177367, Yale University Press, September 2014
424 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 420 colour images, 58 black&white illus.

After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist...

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Biography & Memoires

Jonathan Swift His Life and His World

Damrosch Leopold

ISBN: PB: 9780300205411, Yale University Press, September 2014
568 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 94 black&white illus.

Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major politi...

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Contemporary Art

Jeff Koons A Retrospective

Rothkopf Scott, Damasio Antonio, Deitch Jeffrey, Graw Isabelle, Hochdorfer Achim, Kuo Michelle, Kushner Rachel, Lee Pamela M., Nagel Alexander, Surowiecki James

ISBN: HB: 9780300195873, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 33x27.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging ove...

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History

Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science

Thomson Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...

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History of Art

John Sloan Drawing on Illustration

Lobel Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300195552, Yale University Press, May 2014
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour images, 125 black&white illus.

The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the Ashcan School, alongside peers like Robert Henri, Everett Shinn and George Luks. Slo...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Judges 1-12 A New Translation

Sasson Jack M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300190335, Yale University Press, May 2014
592 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Informed by the literature and language of the ancient Near East, this bountiful new commentary to Chapters 1 to 12 of the biblical Book of Judges provides a literary and theological analysis of some of Scripture's most stirring narratives and verses...

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Asia

Japan The Paradox of Harmony

Hirata Keiko, Warschauer Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300186079, Yale University Press, May 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For centuries, people in the West have been fascinated, enchanted and perplexed in equal measure by Japan and its culture. Following a crushing defeat in the Second World War, this small, proud country rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to be...

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Criminology

Jack the Ripper The Forgotten Victims

Begg Paul, Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300117202, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing...

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