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European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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Cartoon Art

Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories Volume 2

Brunetti Ivan

ISBN: HB: 9780300126716, Yale University Press, September 2008
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, chiefly illus.

Comic art is a vital, highly personal art form in which change – rapid and unpredictable – is the norm. In this exciting new anthology, comic artist Ivan Brunetti focuses on very recent works by contemporary artists engaged in this world of change. T...

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History of Art

Collected Writings on Velazquez

Brown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300144932, Yale University Press, August 2008
410 pp., 25.4x18.5 cm, 170 colour illus.

In this stimulating book, a leading authority on the Spanish master Diego Velazquez discusses this enigmatic artist and explores the mysteries presented by his paintings. The essays collected here, written over the course of Jonathan Brown's distingu...

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Chinese

Chinese Grammar Made Easy A Practical and Effective Guide for Teachers

Bai Jianhua

ISBN: PB: 9780300122794, Yale University Press, July 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"Chinese Grammar Made Easy" presents instructors with innovative and classroom-tested techniques for teaching 150 fundamental grammar points. Its communicative, meaning-based approach helps teachers to engage students by bringing grammar into a real-...

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Contemporary Art

Neohoodoo Art for a Forgotten Faith

Budney Jen, Coleman Danto Arthur, Herzberg Julia, Sirmans Franklin, Tate Greg, Farris Thompson Robert, Troupe Quincy

ISBN: HB: 9780300134186, Yale University Press, June 2008
144 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 60 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

NeoHooDoo', a phrase coined by the poet Ishmael Reed in 1970, celebrates the practice of rituals, folklore, and spirituality in the Americas beyond the scope of Christianity and organized religion. The endurance of these centuries-old traditions of m...

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Europe

Spy Wars Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly Games

Bagley Tennent H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300136241, Yale University Press, May 2008
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this rapidly paced book, a former CIA chief of counter intelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the N...

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Contemporary Art

Lightning Field

Baker Kenneth, Cooke Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300138948, Yale University Press, April 2008
192 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm

Walter De Maria's Lightning Field (1977) is one of the twentieth century's most significant works of art. Situated in a remote area of desert in southwestern New Mexico, it comprises 400 polished, stainless-steel poles (spaced 220 feet apart) install...

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Polonica

Soviet-Polish Peace of 1921 and the Creation of Interwar Europe

Borzecki Jerzy

ISBN: HB: 9780300121216, Yale University Press, April 2008
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus., 6 maps

The Soviet-Polish peace treaty of 1921, also known as the "Riga peace", ended the war of 1919-1920 and may be considered the most important Eastern European treaty of the interwar period. This deeply researched book offers the first post-Soviet accou...

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Design

Shaker Design Out of This World

Burks Jean M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137286, Yale University Press, March 2008
320 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 350 illus.

Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the American Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester in 1776 to avoid persecution, th...

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Photography

Andrew Bush Drive

Bush Andrew, Morrison Patt, Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136487, Yale University Press, March 2008
146 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 60 colour illus.

Many of us know that automobiles are expressions of our individuality and personality. We may not realize, however, that the car can also provide the most space over which we have complete control in our daily lives. Being in the car is private and p...

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