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Russian

Rifkin Benjamin, Kagan Olga, Yatsenko Anna

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300109474, Yale University Press, January 2007
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 5 maps, 8 photos

"Advanced Russian Through History" is a Russian reader for intermediate and advanced students of Russian and heritage learners of Russian. The book consists of 36 chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Ea...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Versions and Inversions Perspectives (vs. Essays) on Avant-garde Art in Latin America

Olea Hector, Ramirez Mari Carmen, Marzio Peter C., Peluffo Linari Gabriel, Giunta Andrea, Camnitzer Luis, Lippard Lucy R., Salzstein Sonia, Smith Terry, Storr Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300116526, Yale University Press, January 2007
272 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book present...

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German

German Through Film

Borra Adriana, Mader-Koltay Ruth

ISBN: PB: 9780300109504, Yale University Press, January 2007
150 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"German Through Film" is designed to be a flexible tool for teachers who strive towards content-based instruction and believe that learning a language should be meaningful and enjoyable. It is based on eight contemporary German films, all of which ar...

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History of Art

Making Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121896, Yale University Press, December 2006
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...

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History of Art

William Powell Frith Painting the Victorian Age

Bills Mark, Knight Vivien

ISBN: HB: 9780300121902, Yale University Press, December 2006
180 pp., 28.2x24.9 cm, colour illus.

William Powell Frith (1819-1909) was the greatest British painter of the social scene since Hogarth. His panoramas of the wide spectrum of nineteenth-century life broke new ground in their depiction of the diverse London crowd and are icons of their...

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Architecture

James "Athenian" Stuart The Rediscovery of Antiquity

Weber Soros Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300117134, Yale University Press, December 2006
480 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 500 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

The creation of the 'Greek style' and its pervasive impact in England and on the Continent during the third quarter of the eighteenth century was largely due to James Stuart's landmark multi-volume publication "Antiquities of Athens", co-authored wit...

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Japanese

Living Japanese Diversity in Language and Lifestyles, with Online Media

Colligan-Taylor Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780300222661, Yale University Press, December 2006
348 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 35 black&white illus.

"Living Japanese: Diversity in Language and Lifestyles" ("Ikita Nihongo: samazama na kotoba, samazama na seikatsu") draws students into the lives of thirty-three Japanese from ages seven to seventy-five. As students listen to diverse viewpoints on cu...

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Arabic

Focus on Contemporary Arabic With Online Media

Abed Shukri B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300224047, Yale University Press, November 2006
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

"Focus on Contemporary Arabic" is the fifth volume in the Conversations with Native Speakers series, which strives to offer pioneering multimedia language materials to students at the intermediate and advanced levels. These programs consist of a slim...

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Philosophy

Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History

Kant Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300110708, Yale University Press, November 2006
304 pp., 21x14 cm

Immanuel Kant's views on politics, peace, and history have lost none of their relevance since their publication more than two centuries ago. This volume contains a comprehensive collection of Kant's writings on international relations theory and poli...

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Contemporary Art

Socrates Sculpture Park

Baker Alyson, Mestrovic Ivana, Di Suvero Mark, Hanrahan Thomas, Kastner Jeffrey, Sandler Irving

ISBN: HB: 9780300120981, Yale University Press, November 2006
256 pp., 28.6x22.9 cm, 175 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Socrates Sculpture Park is one of the most acclaimed public art spaces in the country. The Park opened in 1986 and has been an outdoor studio to over 500 artists, a venue presenting more than 40 exhibitions of large-scale sculpture, and a vital park...

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