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Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" A Casebook
ISBN: PB: 9780300140385, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.
Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of "Sinners", accompanied by the tools necessary to study and teach this famous American sermon. With an introduction aimed at students and teachers and...
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£20,00
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John Gutmann The Photographer at Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300123319, Yale University Press, August 2009
176 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 150 duotone illus.
John Gutmann (1905-1998) was one of America's most distinctive photographers. Born in Germany where he trained as an artist and art teacher, he fled the Nazis in 1933 and settled in San Francisco, reinventing himself as a photo-reporter. Gutmann capt...
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£50,00
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Jews in Ukrainian Literature Representation and Identity
ISBN: PB: 9780300125887, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This pioneering study is the first to show how Jews have been seen through modern Ukrainian literature. Myroslav Shkandrij uses evidence found within that literature to challenge the established view that the Ukrainian and Jewish communities were ant...
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£46,00
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John Singer Sargent Volume 6: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913 (The Complete Paintings)
ISBN: HB: 9780300141405, Yale University Press, March 2009
272 pp., 31x24.8 cm, 256 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.
Throughout his career – and particularly in the period from 1898 to 1913 – John Singer Sargent painted the spectacular architecture and scenes of everyday life in Venice, as he sat alongside the Grand Canal or in a gondola in the sleepy side canals....
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£60,00
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John Talman An Early Eighteenth-Century Connoisseur
ISBN: HB: 9780300123357, Yale University Press, February 2009
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 colour illus.
This handsome book is the only full-length study of John Talman (1677-1726), the first director of the Society of Antiquaries and one of the most influential collectors of drawings in early 18th-century Britain. Prominent scholars discuss the history...
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£45,00
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Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered
ISBN: HB: 9780300142136, Yale University Press, September 2008
352 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour images, 76 black&white illus.
Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal por...
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£60,00
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Josep Lluis Sert The Architect of Urban Design, 1953-1969
ISBN: HB: 9780300120653, Yale University Press, June 2008
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 94 black&white illus., 26 colour illus.
This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert came to international attention in the 1930s and '40s as...
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£50,00
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Jonah
ISBN: PB: 9780300139709, Yale University Press, December 2007
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
Were Jonah's experiences true to the history of ancient Israel? Were they meant to be read comically, philosophically, allegorically, symbolically, or realistically? And is God godly when acting beyond the comprehension of prophets, let alone ordinar...
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Joshua
ISBN: PB: 9780300139440, Yale University Press, December 2007
612 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.
"Joshua" began as a collaboration between G. Ernest Wright, the distinguished biblical scholar and archaeologist, and his student, Robert G. Boling. After Wright's death, Professor Boling, who also did the translation and commentary for Judges, finis...
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£48,00
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Judith
ISBN: PB: 9780300139952, Yale University Press, December 2007
316 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
"Judith" is Volume 40 in the acclaimed anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testaments" and "Apocrypha". In the "Apocrypha", Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes, the A...
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