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Unmodern Observations (Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen)
ISBN: PB: 9780300180190, Yale University Press, July 2011
422 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
This translation of Nietzsche's early "Unzeitgemasse Betrachtungen" consists of four long essays and notes for a fifth. Nietzsche planned these works as part of an extremely ambitious critique of German culture. Although the project was never complet...
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£28,00
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Upside Down Arctic Realities
ISBN: HB: 9780300169386, Yale University Press, April 2011
224 pp., 26.6x24.8 cm, 62 black&white illus., 132 colour illus.
Based on groundbreaking new scholarship, "Upside Down: Arctic Realities" brings together ancient and modern works from the Arctic region, including major sites in Russia and Alaska. The featured pieces dramatically illustrate the continuing influence...
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£35,00
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Unfinished Revolution Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central Eastern Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300167160, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.8x16.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
While the West has repeatedly been sold images of a victorious people's revolution in 1989, the idea that dictatorship has been truly overcome is foreign to many in the former Communist bloc. In this wide-ranging work, James Mark examines how new dem...
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£45,00
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Uncloseting Drama American Modernism and Queer Performance
ISBN: PB: 9780300155396, Yale University Press, November 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the "closet drama" – plays written largely for private reading – as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.
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£32,00
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Unpacking My Library Architects and Their Books
ISBN: HB: 9780300158939, Yale University Press, November 2009
208 pp., 14x20.3 cm, 284 colour images, 24 black&white illus.
What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? "Unpacking...
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£16,00
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Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery
ISBN: HB: 9780300111316, Yale University Press, January 2009
1200 pp., 31x25 cm, 2000 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.
Sir William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), was among the foremost collectors of his age with as great a passion for the decorative arts as for painting and sculpture. This magnificent book explores one aspect of the outstanding collectio...
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£195,00
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Unseemly Pictures Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780300142549, Yale University Press, December 2008
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 100 black&white illus.
This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a v...
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£45,00
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Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings
ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...
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£40,00
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Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300106305, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2005
128 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 77 colour images, 14 black&white illus.
The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely co...
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£18,99
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Under His Very Windows The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
ISBN: PB: 9780300093100, Yale University Press, February 2002
434 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, black&white illus.
Pope Pius XII has often been criticized for his silence during the extermination of European Jewry during World War II. In his defense, some have alleged that the pope was doing a great deal to help the Jews but that his efforts were necessarily behi...
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£31,00
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