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Kongo Power and Majesty
ISBN: HB: 9781588395757, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
308 pp., 28x23.4 cm, 261 colour illus.
Artists from the kingdom of Kongo – a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola-were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch...
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£50,00
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Kabbalah A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
ISBN: HB: 9780300152364, Yale University Press, August 2015
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.
In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new pe...
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£43,00
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Keys to a Passion
ISBN: HB: 9780300215427, Yale University Press, May 2015
284 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 125 colour illus.
This beautiful and authoritative book brings together a number of exceptional works of art whose audacity disrupted the course of art history at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists including Monet, Mondrian, Malevich, Rothko, Bonnard, Pi...
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£35,00
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Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder
ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...
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£25,00
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Kem Weber, Designer and Architect
ISBN: HB: 9780300206272, Yale University Press, November 2014
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 96 colour images, 205 black&white illus.
For German-born Kem Weber (1889-1963), design was not about finding a new expression; it was about responding to "structural, economic, and social requirements...characteristic of our daily routine of living". He sought to ensure that each design he...
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£50,00
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Kreutzer Sonata The Tolstoy Family Ensemble
ISBN: HB: 9780300189940, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Leo Tolstoy's controversial novella, "The Kreutzer Sonata", which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the fi...
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£52,00
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Kimbell Art Museum Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300196337, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 330 colour illus.
Completely updated, this comprehensive guide covers the Kimbell Art Museum's world-renowned collection of masterpieces. Its publication is timed to coincide with the highly anticipated opening of the museum's new building, designed by Renzo Piano. Th...
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£16,99
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Kent: North East and East Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300185065, Yale University Press, October 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated and expanded edition of John Newman's classic survey, first published in 1969. This city of Canterbury is the county's greatest treasure, and its glorious c...
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£60,00
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King's Pictures The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers
ISBN: HB: 9780300190120, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
The greatest paintings in today's most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of...
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£30,00
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Katyn A Crime Without Punishment
ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...
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£33,50
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