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Judaism

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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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Friedlander Saul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Forest of the Hanged

Rebreanu Liviu

ISBN: PB: 9781612004686, Casemate, April 2016
352 pp., 19x13.2 cm

During the First World War, just behind the eastern front, there was a forest, where Austrians and Hungarians used to hang deserters. To this place came Apostol Bologa, a young Romanian officer eager to serve his country. Born in a Romanian region of...

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Culture Studies

Enactments

Festive Devils of the Americas

Cozart Riggio Milla, Marino Angela, Vignolo Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780857421791, Seagull Books, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil – the devil that dances – turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first vol...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Fox and the Grapes

ISBN: HB: 9781402783456, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2015
40 pp., 16.6x11.5 cm, full colour throughout

When a thirsty fox sees some tasty-looking grapes, he's delighted. But he just can't reach them, no matter how high he jumps or how hard he tries. Bitterly disappointed, he walks off, calling them "'sour". Aesop's charming animal fable gently teaches...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Fiction

The Swiss List

Fly Away, Pigeon

Nadj Abonji Melinda

ISBN: HB: 9780857422125, Seagull Books, November 2014
212 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Fly Away, Pigeon" tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits of the former Yugoslavia and modern-day Switzerland. In this novel, Melinda Nadj Abonji interweaves two narrative s...

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Children's Books

Funny Machines for George the Sheep A Children's Book Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci

Elschner Geraldine

ISBN: HB: 9783791371665, Prestel Publishing, April 2014
32 pp., 32x24 cm, 32 colour illus.

This delightful introduction to the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci teaches young readers about the painstaking but rewarding art of design and discovery. George the sheep is happy living outside in his meadow except for one thing: when it rains, he...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Formation of the Jewish Canon

Lim Timothy H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300164343, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls provides unprecedented insight into the nature of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament before its fixation. Timothy Lim here presents a complete account of the formation of the canon in Ancient Judaism from the emer...

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