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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Warwickshire The Buildings of England

Pickford Chris, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300215601, Yale University Press, May 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Highlights of this fully revised and updated guide are the magnificent medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, but this county is also home to some of the most significant developments of England's postwar modern architecture, notably...

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Literary Criticism

Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19 Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends

Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300210958, Yale University Press, May 2016
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm

Well before publishing the "Lives of the Poets", Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confuci...

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Performing Arts

Why X Matters

Why Acting Matters

Thomson David

ISBN: PB: 9780300195743, ISBN: HB: 9780300195781, Yale University Press, March 2016
192 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, exam...

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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Psychology

When Your Child Hurts Effective Strategies to Increase Comfort, Reduce Stress, and Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain

Coakley Rachael

ISBN: PB: 9780300204650, Yale University Press, December 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Parents of a child in pain want nothing more than to offer immediate comfort. But a child with chronic or recurring pain requires much more. His or her parents need skills and strategies not only for increasing comfort but also for helping their chil...

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Decorative Arts

Design

Wittgenstein Vitrine Modern Opulence in Vienna

Tucker Kevin W., Baas Fran

ISBN: HB: 9780300214574, Yale University Press, December 2015
88 pp., 28x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

The Wittgenstein Vitrine, a monumental silver and gemstone-encrusted cabinet, is one of the most important and complex works produced by Austria's Wiener Werkstatte. Kevin W. Tucker weaves together a fascinating portrait of the vitrine, examining its...

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History of Art

Wilton Diptych

Gordon Dillian, Roy Ashok, Wyld Martin, Barron Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095838, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2015
144 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 130 colour illus.

The Wilton Diptych is a comprehensive account of one of England's greatest surviving medieval treasures, now in the collection of The National Gallery, London. The painting depicts King Richard II (1367-1400) being presented to the Virgin Mary and Ch...

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Contemporary Art

Wyeth Andrew and Jamie in the Studio

Standring Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300214215, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 24.8x29.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Father and son artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) are among the most celebrated American realist painters of the 20th century. Despite their similar habits of mind, studio practice, and rural Pennsylvania upbringing, the two a...

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Biography & Memoires

Wilfred Owen

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300216158, ISBN: HB: 9780300153002, Yale University Press, October 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ration...

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Photography

Warhol and Mapplethorpe Guise and Dolls

Hickson Patricia, Katz Jonathan D., Latimer Tirza True, Fremont Vincent, Myles Eileen, Makos Christopher, Pacelli Maria Luisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300214338, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 148 colour illus.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original book is...

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