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Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.
Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...
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£35,00
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Vagrant Figures Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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£50,00
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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.
The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...
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Art and Faith A Theology of Making
ISBN: HB: 9780300254143, Yale University Press, February 2021
184 pp., 19x14 cm
Written over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura's broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of "making". What he does in the studio, he asserts, is theological work as much as it...
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£20,00
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Bonds of Womanhood "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
ISBN: PB: 9780300254082, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
This Veritas edition of Nancy Cott's acclaimed study includes a new introduction by the author, situating the work for a new generation of readers.
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£14,99
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Founding God's Nation Reading Exodus
ISBN: HB: 9780300253030, Yale University Press, February 2021
752 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, biblical scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself. Considered by some th...
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£35,00
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Global Indies British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815
ISBN: HB: 9780300239973, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.
In this lively book, Ashley Cohen reveals how eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire – not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected "Indies". Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, an...
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James Castle Memory Palace
ISBN: HB: 9780300253498, Yale University Press, February 2021
304 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Self-taught artist James Castle (1899-1977) is primarily known for soot and saliva drawings of meticulously rendered domestic interiors and farm scenes, along with fantastical figures, animals, and architectural constructions made of cardboard and st...
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Nikolai Astrup Visions of Norway
ISBN: HB: 9780300250855, Yale University Press, February 2021
240 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.
Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was a Norwegian Expressionist artist known for colorful paintings and woodcuts of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but he later rebelled against cert...
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Last Shah America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9780300217797, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Offering a new view of one of America's most important, infamously strained, and widely misunderstood relationships of the postwar era, this book tells the history of America and Iran from the time the last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was placed on...
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£25,00
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