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Architecture

Ham House Four Hundred Years of Collecting and Patronage

Rowell Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300185409, Yale University Press, April 2013
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-1639 by the future first Earl of Dysart, "Ham House" and its gardens have endured through centuries of English history while remaining representative of the styles and culture of the ori...

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Architecture

James Stirling Revisionary Modernist

Reeser Lawrence Amanda

ISBN: HB: 9780300170054, Yale University Press, February 2013
248 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 129 black&white illus.

James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. "James Stirling: Revision...

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Contemporary Art

Eva Hesse, 1965

Rosen Barry, Applin Jo, Alden Todd, Swenson Kirsten, Fisher Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196658, Yale University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 89 colour images, 8 black&white illus.

In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle were invited by the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse's practice. Eva Hesse 1...

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Biography & Memoires

Johnson and Boswell A Biography of Friendship

Radner John B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178753, Yale University Press, January 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In this book John Radner examines the fluctuating, close, and complex friendship enjoyed by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, from the day they met in 1763 to the day when Boswell published his monumental "Life of Johnson". Drawing on everything John...

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History of Art

Under the Banyan Tree Relocating the Picturesque in British India

Ray Romita

ISBN: HB: 9780300187694, Yale University Press, January 2013
400 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 60 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

"Under the Banyan Tree" is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the British Raj. Romita Ray argues that this concept allowed British artists and writers travelling in India to aestheticize the India...

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Contemporary Art

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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Business & Economics

Network is Your Customer Five Strategies to Thrive in a Digital Age

Rogers David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188295, Yale University Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 15 black&white illus.

There is no shortage of books about digital media, but what has been missing is a strategic take on how business owners can utilize the most powerful asset of the digital age: customer networks. Whether shoppers, business clients, charitable donors,...

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Europe

Mayhem Post-war Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

Rogers Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300169621, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nic...

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Physics

Radioactive Transformations

Rutherford Ernest, Wilczek Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300181302, Yale University Press, September 2012
320 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Radioactive Transformations" describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on radioactive matter. Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with Rutherfo...

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History of Art

Matisse In Search of True Painting

Rabinow Rebecca A., Aagesen Dorthe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188578, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

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