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My Dear BB... The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925-1959

Cumming Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300207378, Yale University Press, April 2015
570 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In 1925, the 22-year-old Kenneth Clark (1903-1983) and the legendary art critic and historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) met in Italy. From that moment, they began a correspondence that lasted until Berenson's death at age 94. This book makes avail...

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Design

Eames Anthology Articles, Film Scripts, Interviews, Letters, Notes, and Speeches

Eames Charles, Eames Ray, Ostroff Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300203455, Yale University Press, April 2015
420 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 94 colour illus., 129 black&white illus.

"An Eames Anthology" collects for the first time the writings of the esteemed American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames, illuminating their marriage and professional partnership of fifty years. More than 120 primary-source documents and...

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History of Art

Flemish Merchant of Venice Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Anderson Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300209686, Yale University Press, April 2015
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues an...

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Europe

Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy c. 1100 to c. 1440

Romano Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300169072, Yale University Press, April 2015
280 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

Cathedrals and civic palaces stand to this day as symbols of the dynamism and creativity of the city-states that flourished in Italy during the Middle Ages. "Markets and Marketplaces in Medieval Italy" argues that the bustling yet impermanent sites o...

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World

Allure of the Archives

Farge Arlette, Scott-Railton Thomas, Zemon Davis Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300198935, Yale University Press, April 2015
150 pp., 21x14 cm

Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portraya...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Austerity The Great Failure

Schui Florian

ISBN: PB: 9780300212778, Yale University Press, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

<p>Austerity is at the centre of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to p...

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Literary Criticism

Dante A Life in Works

Hollander Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300212594, Yale University Press, April 2015
240 pp., 21x14 cm

How did Dante come to create his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, a work unrivaled by any of his other writings? In this book, a preeminent Dante scholar analyzes the only real biography of the poet that we have-his body of works-to illuminate this qu...

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Fashion

High Style Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reeder Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780300212310, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 355 colour illus.

"High Style is filled with fashion inspiration and information...Nearly every page...includes a captivating photo of one of the collection's lavish garments or accessories" – Threads Published for the first time in paperback, this lavishly illustrate...

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Ecology

From Precaution to Profit Contemporary Challenges to Environmental Protection in the Montreal Protocol

Gareau Brian J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300213157, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The Montreal Protocol has been cited as the most successful global environmental agreement, responsible for phasing out the use of ozone-depleting substances. But, says Brian Gareau in this provocative and engaging book, the Montreal Protocol has fai...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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