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Film Studies

Jewish Studies

Stanley Kubrick American Filmmaker

Mikics David

ISBN: HB: 9780300224405, Yale University Press, October 2020
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Kubrick grew up in the Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by photography, chess, and, above all else, movies. He was a self?taught filmmaker and self?proclaimed outsider, and his films exist in a unique world of their own outside...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Rav Kook Everything is Rising

Mirsky Yehudah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...

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Philosophy

Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent

Mendes-Flohr Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300153040, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments – such as his sudden...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of Drawings

Menil Collection

ISBN: HB: 9780300229349, Yale University Press, November 2018
1888 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 870 colour illus.

Six decades of both iconic and intimate works by Jasper Johns (b. 1930), who is still producing at the age of 88, are given their full due in this magnificent multi-volume publication. Featuring exquisite full-page illustrations of all 813 known draw...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)

Meier John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan, and Monaghan Buildings of Ireland

Mulligan Kevin V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186017, Yale University Press, April 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The newest volume in the "Buildings of Ireland" series covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan, and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly populated uplands around the Cuilcagh Mountains and the cradle of the Shannon to the fertile Blackwat...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Ancient Christian Martyrdom Diverse Practices, Theologies and Traditions

Moss Candida R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154658, Yale University Press, July 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The importance of martyrdom for the spread of Christianity in the first centuries of the Common Era is a question of enduring interest. In this innovative new study, Candida Moss offers a radically new history of martyrdom in the first and second cen...

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Architecture

Archaeology & Paleontology

Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt 300 BC - AD 700

McKenzie Judith

ISBN: PB: 9780300170948, Yale University Press, January 2011
416 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This masterful history of the monumental architecture of Alexandria, as well as of the rest of Egypt, encompasses an entire millennium – from the city's founding by Alexander the Great in 331 B. C. to the years just after the Islamic conquest of A. D...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Newcastle and Gateshead City Guides

McCombie Grace

ISBN: PB: 9780300126648, Yale University Press, October 2009
320 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This book offers a lively and authoritative survey of the buildings of Tyneside, from the medieval castle and cathedral at Newcastle to the spectacular buildings spearheading the renaissance of Gateshead on the river's south bank. Both urban centres...

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