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Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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Fiction

Classic War Fiction

Roux the Bandit

Chamson Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781612004174, Casemate, August 2016
112 pp., 19x13.2 cm

Set deep in the mountains of southern France, this charming short novel tells the story of a man from the Cevennes Mountains called Roux, who refuses to join the army at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, only retu...

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Fiction

The Africa List

Rachel's Blue

Mda Zakes

ISBN: HB: 9780857423320, Seagull Books, March 2016
296 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Novelist Zakes Mda has made a name for himself as a key chronicler of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, casting a satirical eye on its claims of political unity, its rising black middle class, and other aspects of its complicated, multiracial soc...

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Fiction

The German List

Rummelplatz

Braunig Werner

ISBN: HB: 9780857423054, Seagull Books, March 2016
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Werner Braunig was once regarded as the great hope of East German literature – until an extract from "Rummelplatz" was read before the East German censorship authorities in 1965, and fierce opposition summarily sealed its fate. The novel's sin? It pa...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Ruth A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Schipper Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300192155, Yale University Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Revelation A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary

Koester Craig R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216912, Yale University Press, November 2015
928 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In this landmark commentary, Craig R. Koester offers a comprehensive look at a powerful and controversial early Christian text, the biblical Book of Revelation. The author provides richly textured descriptions of the book's setting and language, maki...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Responsive Self Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods

Niditch Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300166361, Yale University Press, October 2015
200 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Works created in the period from the Babylonian conquest of Judea through the takeover and rule of Judea and Samaria by imperial Persia reveal a profound interest in the religious responses of individuals and an intimate engagement with the nature of...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Rue Traversiere

Bonnefoy Yves

ISBN: HB: 9780857422279, Seagull Books, March 2015
88 pp., 19.5x13.9 cm

Praised by Paul Auster as "one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetime", Yves Bonnefoy is widely considered the foremost French poet of his generation. Pr...

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Performing Arts

In Performance

Rechnitz, and The Merchant's Contracts

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780857422255, Seagull Books, February 2015
240 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust and her provocative deconstructions of pornography. Despite this, her central role in shaping contempora...

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Architecture

Pelican History of Art

Romanesque Architecture

Fernie Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300203547, Yale University Press, May 2014
400 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 120 colour images, 269 black&white illus.

In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating chronological survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise to the style. It is known for its mass...

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