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Architecture

Landscape Architecture

Nature by Design The Practice of Biophilic Design

Kellert Stephen R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214536, Yale University Press, April 2018
224 pp., 19x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

Biophilia is the theory that people possess an inherent affinity for nature, which developed during the long course of human evolution. In recent years, studies have revealed that this inclination continues to be a vital component to human health and...

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Contemporary Art

Nicolas Schoffer Space, Light, Time

Pierre Arnauld

ISBN: HB: 9780300233247, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2018
240 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schoffer (1912-1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, mic...

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America

New Abolition W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300230598, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of...

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Decorative Arts

Napoleon The Imperial Household

Cordier Sylvain

ISBN: HB: 9780300233469, Yale University Press, February 2018
352 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 380 colour and black&white illus.

The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 38

Billinge Rachel, Dunkerton Jill, Ede Minna Moore, Franklin Jonathan, Howard Helen, Keith Larry, Peggie David, Spring Marika, Wieseman Marjorie E., Wivel Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9781857096231, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
112 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.

This latest volume of the National Gallery's "Technical Bulletin" series features a range of studies, reflecting its commitment to the scientific research and conservation of paintings in its care. Articles include the recent conservation of Rosso Fi...

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Music

Notes from the Pianist's Bench

Berman Boris

ISBN: PB: 9780300221527, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 177 black&white illus.

In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedago...

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Other

New Cosmic Story Inside Our Awakening Universe

Haught John F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217032, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have...

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History of Art

Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

Onians John

ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...

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History of Art

New American Sculpture, 1914-1945 Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach

Eschelbacher Andrew, Reece-Hughes Shirley, Tarbell Roberta, Harvey Ronald S., Haffner Michaela

ISBN: PB: 9780300226218, Yale University Press, April 2017
224 pp., 28.9x24.8 cm, 149 colour illus.

"A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945" is the first publication to situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social c...

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General

Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

Daar Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...

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