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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Churches An Architectural Guide

Bradley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300233438, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 102 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

This compact and accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of church architecture – stylistic developments, functio...

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Literary Criticism

Jewish Studies

Feeling Jewish (A Book for Just About Anyone)

Baum Devorah

ISBN: HB: 9780300212440, Yale University Press, January 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm

Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria. Overbearing Mother-Love. In this witty, insightful, and poignant book, Devorah Baum delves into fiction, film, memoir, and psychoanalysis to present a dazzlingly original exploration of a series of...

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History of Art

Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer

Bambach Carmen C., Barry Claire, Caglioti Francesco, Cuperi Walter, Elam Caroline, McDonald Mark, Marongiu Marcella, Mussolin Mauro, Rinaldi Furio, Zanchettin Vitale

ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Gordon Matta-Clark Anarchitect

Bessa Antonio Sergio, Fiore Jessamyn, Jordan Cara M., Wrona Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9780300230437, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 90 colour illus.

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell Universit...

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History of Art

Visual Voyages Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780300224023, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 153 colour illus.

From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know...

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Law

Justice and Empathy Toward a Constitutional Ideal

Burt Robert A., Iacobucci Frank, Post Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300224269, Yale University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 21x14 cm

The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. Constitutional scholar Robert A. Burt explores this shift...

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Philosophy

Edge of Reason A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

Baggini Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780300228724, ISBN: HB: 9780300208238, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving – or even discussing – divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animal...

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History of Art

Art Conservation

Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History Volume 3: Degas

Barbour Daphne S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300230116, Yale University Press, October 2017
196 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 162 colour illus.

This volume of "Facture", a biennial journal that presents the latest conservation research on works of art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, focuses exclusively on conservation treatment, technical art history, and scientific research rela...

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Contemporary Art

Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980

Baum Kelly, Bradnock Lucy, Ryan Tina Rivers

ISBN: HB: 9781588396334, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2017
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 241 colour illus.

Addressing the maniacal, eccentric, and disorienting in artworks made between 1950 and 1980, Delirious situates a fascination with the absurd and irrational within the context of the violence and brutality witnessed during World War II as well as the...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Birth of Christian History Memory and Time from Mark to Luke-Acts

Becker Eve-Marie

ISBN: HB: 9780300165098, Yale University Press, October 2017
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

When the Gospel writings were first produced, Christian thinking was already cognizant of its relationship to ancient memorial cultures and history-writing traditions. Yet, little has been written about exactly what shaped the development of early Ch...

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