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Contemporary Art

Alfred Stieglitz Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Rose Phyllis

ISBN: HB: 9780300226485, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 89 black&white illus.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stiegl...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Apocalypse as Holy War Divine Politics and Polemics in the Letters of Paul

Wasserman Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300204025, Yale University Press, June 2018
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert God's dominion. Emma Wasserman, a rising scholar of early Christian history, challenges this interp...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Amos A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Eidevall Goran

ISBN: HB: 9780300178784, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculat...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Aubrey Beardsley A Catalogue Raisonne

Zatlin Linda Gertner

ISBN: HB: 9780300111279, Yale University Press, March 2016
960 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 1100 black&white illus.

This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) a...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen The Buildings of Scotland

Sharples Joseph, Walker David, Woodworth Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300215557, Yale University Press, November 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen – the nation's third-largest city – and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's a...

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Architecture

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Aberdeenshire: North and Moray The Buildings of Scotland

Walker David W., Woodworth Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300204285, Yale University Press, May 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The north-east of Scotland is one of the least known areas of the country but has an architectural heritage as rich as the Highlands and Angus with which it shares its borders. This volume is the first of two to illuminate its buildings and covers no...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Alexander Gardner The Western Photographs, 1867-1868

Aspinwall Jane Lee, Davis Keith F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208245, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 275 black&white illus.

Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) also created two extraordinary bodies of work depicting the transformation of the American West: Across the Continent on the Kansas Pacific Railway and Scenes in the Indian Count...

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Christianity

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

Ayrshire and Arran The Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Riches Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300141702, Yale University Press, October 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from dune-backed sands to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. It is the county of Rober...

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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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