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Chicago Renaissance Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis

Olson Liesl

ISBN: HB: 9780300203684, Yale University Press, September 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 88 black&white illus.

This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how C...

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History of Art

Neuroarthistory From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki

Onians John

ISBN: PB: 9780300229547, ISBN: HB: 9780300126778, Yale University Press, September 2017
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This provocative book offers a fascinating account of one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences: neuroarthistory. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in both the quantity and the quality of our knowledge about...

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Contemporary Art

Lumia Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light

Orgeman Keely, Turrell James, Borgen Maibritt, DeBlock Jason, Snow Carol, Zinman Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300215182, Yale University Press, August 2017
172 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 161 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

A long-overdue publication that restores Wilfred to the art-historical canon "Lumia" presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as...

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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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German

German Phonetics and Phonology Theory and Practice

O'Brien Grantham Mary, Fagan Sarah M. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196504, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 58 black&white illus.

The first course book designed to engage students in the pronunciation of modern German by grounding practice in theory An essential introduction to the pronunciation of modern German, this unique classroom text is designed to help mid- to upper-leve...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

European Art A Neuroarthistory

Onians John

ISBN: HB: 9780300212792, Yale University Press, October 2016
320 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

A bold revision of the history of European art, told through the lens of neuroscience Ambitious and much anticipated, this book celebrates the value of recent neuroscientific discoveries as tools for art-historical analysis. Case studies ranging acro...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

John Singer Sargent Volume 9: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925 (The Complete Paintings)

Ormond Richard, Kilmurray Elaine

ISBN: HB: 9780300177374, Yale University Press, June 2016
352 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 194 colour illus., 106 black&white illus.

The last in a series of books devoted to the work of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), this volume covers the figure and landscape works that Sargent produced between 1914 and 1925. The story begins with the artist painting with friends on vacation in...

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Europe

Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt

Oosterlinck Kim, Bulger Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300190915, Yale University Press, May 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime's sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlin...

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Biography & Memoires

Letters of C. Vann Woodward

O'Brien Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300185348, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days a...

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Ancient World

Ancient Egypt Transformed The Middle Kingdom

Oppenheim Adela, Arnold Dorothea, Arnold Dieter, Yamamoto Kei

ISBN: HB: 9781588395641, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
400 pp., 31.1x24.9 cm, 365 colour illus., 42 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Middle Kingdom (ca. 2030-1700 B.C.), the second great era of ancient Egyptian culture, was a transformational period during which the artistic conventions, cultural principles, religious beliefs, and political systems formed during earlier dynast...

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