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Marchioro Narcisa

ISBN: HB: 9783791372600, Prestel Publishing, April 2017
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

This fun and educational journey through art history shows young readers how the materials artists use in their work have evolved over the centuries, around the world. The earliest artists wielded bones, pieces of ivory, and wooden sticks to create...

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Architecture

50 Series

50 Architects You Should Know New Edition

Kuhl Isabel, Lowis Kristina, Thiel-Siling Sabine

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383408, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this introduction to fifty visionary architects traces the major aesthetic movements over the past six centuries and offers concise portraits of the geniuses behind them. Starting with the Renaissance, this accessible...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

50 Modern Artists You Should Know New Edition

Weidemann Christiane

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383385, Prestel Publishing, March 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this chronologically arranged volume covers a century and a half of masterpieces which beautifully capture the development of art in the modern age. Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

Hayim Nahman Bialik Poet of Hebrew

Holtzman Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780300200669, Yale University Press, March 2017
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Friendship in the Hebrew Bible

Olyan Saul M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300182682, Yale University Press, March 2017
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The first comprehensive study of friendship in the Hebrew Bible Friendship, though a topic of considerable humanistic and cross disciplinary interest in contemporary scholarship, has been largely ignored by scholars of the Hebrew Bible, possibly beca...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Painting and Sculpture

Bernstein Roberta, Zinn Betsy Stepina, Colsman-Freyberger Heidi, Sweeney Caitlin

ISBN: HB: 9780300227420, Yale University Press, March 2017
1500 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 1317 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The essential five-volume resource on the painting and sculpture of one of the world's foremost contemporary artists. For more than 60 years, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has remained a singular figure in contemporary art. His most widely influential work...

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Fiction

The French List

Red Sofa

Lesbre Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780857423733, Seagull Books, March 2017
104 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In "The Red Sofa", we meet Anne, a young woman setting off on the Trans-Siberian Railway in order to find her former lover, Gyl, who left twenty years before. As the train moves across post-Soviet Russia and its devastated landscapes, Anne reflects o...

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Political Science

The German List

Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficits Or Why the Democracy Given to Us Must Become One We Fight For

Menasse Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780857423627, Seagull Books, March 2017
112 pp., 19x12.7 cm

In 2010, Robert Menasse journeyed to Brussels to begin work on a novel centered on the European Union. His extended stay resulted in a completely different book – "Enraged Citizens, European Peace and Democratic Deficiencies", a work of nonfiction ex...

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History of Art

Art Flexi-Series

Egon Schiele Landscapes

Leopold Rudolf

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383460, Prestel Publishing, February 2017
208 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 112 colour illus., 64 black&white illus.

Now available in an updated edition, this visually stunning collection of landscape paintings and drawings by Egon Schiele brings to light a little-known aspect of this famous painter's oeuvre. Best known for his depictions of the human form, Schie...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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