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Koo Jeong A Constellation Congress

Raymond Yasmil, Nesbit Molly, Nicolao Federico, Parreno Philippe, Price Cedric, Sky Rehberg Vivian, Sasselov Dimitar D., Wyn Evans Cerith, Yankelevich Matvei

ISBN: HB: 9780300188806, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 127 colour illus.

Since the early 1990s, Koo Jeong A (b. 1967) has created ephemeral environments, sculptures, and drawings that examine the poetics of everyday life and the mysteries of imagination. This book, the first critical study of Koo's work, looks at the past...

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Education

Knowledge in the Making Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities

DelFattore Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188141, ISBN: HB: 9780300111811, Yale University Press, September 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles ove...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Kent: West and the Weald Buildings of England

Newman John

ISBN: HB: 9780300185096, Yale University Press, July 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This classic architectural survey of West Kent has been used by students and travellers for more than forty years. Now fully revised and expanded to include the great variety of buildings added to the landscape during that time, this indispensable gu...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Kipper und Wipper Inflation, 1619-1623 An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets

White Paas Martha, Paas John Roger, Schoolfield George C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146769, Yale University Press, July 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This book is an economic analysis of the Kipper und Wipper inflation of 1619-1623, the most serious German inflation before the hyperinflation following World War I, with a particular focus on how it affected people's lives and behaviour. The volume...

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Europe

King Stephen

King Edmund

ISBN: PB: 9780300181951, Yale University Press, February 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Ed...

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History of Art

Knowing Nature Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840

Meyers Amy R. W., Ford Lisa L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111040, Yale University Press, January 2012
424 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 325 colour illus.

Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been address...

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German

Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben An Interactive German Reader for the Intermediate German Classroom

Pfrehm James

ISBN: PB: 9780300166026, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 18 black&white illus.

"Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben" is an intermediate-level German reader that can be used as either the main text in a conversation course or a supplementary text in an intermediate grammar review course. James Pfrehm's innovative approach includes t...

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Design

Fashion

Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010

Martin Earl

ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...

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Contemporary Art

Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence Painting with White Border

Smithgall Elsa

ISBN: HB: 9780300170788, Yale University Press, June 2011
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 75 colour illus.

Russian artist and theoretician Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork "Painting with White Border" (1913, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an inte...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Kosta Alex

Rodari Florian

ISBN: HB: 9780300176650, Yale University Press, June 2011
180 pp., 29.8x24.8 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The Greek-American artist Kosta Alex (1925-2005) initially trained in figure sculpture in Manhattan. In 1947 he moved to Paris, where he mingled with and exhibited alongside the avant-garde artists of his day. His interest in the flattening of forms...

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