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History of Art

Closer Look Colour

Bomford David, Roy Ashok

ISBN: PB: 9781857094428, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, August 2009
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

"A Closer Look" is the new series title for the updated and refreshed National Gallery Pocket Guide range. The series has been enhanced with a stronger format, attractive design, new photography, and additional information. It is self-evident that...

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Cultural Studies

Bagel The Surprising History of a Modest Bread

Balinska Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780300158205, Yale University Press, July 2009
242 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Maria Balinska's captivating cultural history of the bagel and its journey through the centuries.

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Architecture

Brick and Clay Building in Britain

Brunskill R. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300116878, Yale University Press, June 2009
262 pp., 24.6x19.6 cm

"Brick and Clay Building in Britain" has been widely praised both for its clear and well-balanced text and for the quality of the illustrations. This new edition includes a fascinating account of how bricks, brick files and terracotta have been made...

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Architecture

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Reconstructing Urban Landscapes

Berrizbeitia Anita, Goldberger Paul, Amidon Jane, Blum Andrew, Carr Ethan, Jong Erik, Fergusson Peter, Gleeson Rachel, Pollak Linda, Rosenberg Elissa

ISBN: HB: 9780300135855, Yale University Press, May 2009
320 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 185 colour illus.

Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Dove/O'Keeffe Circles of Influence

Bricker Balken Debra

ISBN: HB: 9780300134100, Yale University Press, May 2009
176 pp., 24.1x26.7 cm, 25 black&white images, 125 colour illus.

From the outset of her career, Georgia O'Keeffe credited her introduction to modernism as deriving in part from a reproduction of a pastel by Arthur Dove she saw around 1913. By this time Dove was well established as the foremost modernist artist in...

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Fiction

White Guard

Bulgakov Mikhail, Schwartz Marian, Dobrenko Evgeny

ISBN: PB: 9780300151459, Yale University Press, May 2009
352 pp., 21x14 cm

"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into...

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History of Art

After Many Springs Regionalism, Modernism, and the Midwest

Bricker Balken Debra, Fleming Jeff

ISBN: HB: 9780300135862, Yale University Press, March 2009
125 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

"After Many Springs" is the title of a Thomas Hart Benton painting that evokes nostalgia for a fertile, creative time gone by. This bold new book – taking the name of this work by Benton – examines the intersections between Regionalist and Modernist...

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Greek & Latin

War with Hannibal Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student

Beyer Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300139181, Yale University Press, January 2009
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

This edition of Book III of Eutropius's Breviarium ab urbe condita is designed to be a student's first encounter with authentic, unabridged Latin prose. Written in a simple and direct style, the Breviarium covers the period of Roman history that stud...

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History of Art

Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Volume 1: Artists Born Between 1570 and 1600

Bikker Jonathan, Bruijnen Yvette, Wuestman Gerdien Eleanora, Korthals Altes Everhardus Joannes, Piet Filedt Kok Jan, Dibbits Taco

ISBN: HB: 9789086890279, Yale University Press, January 2009
584 pp., 39.5x39.5 cm, colour illus.

This spectacular slipcased two-volume set is the first in a series of four catalogues that will showcase the holdings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which owns the world's largest and most representative collection of paintings from the Dutch Golde...

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History of Art

Art and Love in Renaissance Italy

Bayer Andrea, Brown Beverly, Edwards Nancy, Fahy Everett, Krohn Deborah L., Musacchio Jacqueline Marie, Thornton Dora, Grantham Turner James, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...

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