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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Ezekiel 1-20

Greenberg Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9780300139662, Yale University Press, December 2007
408 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In "Ezekiel 1-20", the first of two volumes of commentary on the Scripture attributed to the third major "Old Testament" prophet, Moshe Greenberg uses accessible prose to explain Ezekiel's ecstatic, erratic, almost incomprehensible otherworldly visio...

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Christianity

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Ezekiel 21-37

Greenberg Moshe

ISBN: PB: 9780300139679, Yale University Press, December 2007
372 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white tables

Ezekiel was and is perhaps the most misunderstood and challenging Hebrew prophet. His prophecies and visions transport us to almost indescribable realms, completely uncharted territory this side of heaven. But as one of Israel's three major prophets,...

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History of Art

Fragile Modernism Whistler and His Impressionist Followers

Gruetzner-Robins Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300135459, Yale University Press, December 2007
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book is the first critical study of Whistler and his Impression...

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Decorative Arts

American Furniture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume 1: Early Colonial Period: The Seventeenth Century and William and Mary Styles

Gruber Safford Frances

ISBN: HB: 9780300116472, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2007
464 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 158 colour illus., 170 black&white illus.

The Metropolitan Museum's preeminent collection of early colonial furniture is expertly documented in this long-awaited publication. It covers the full spectrum of furniture forms made during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, from chair...

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Women Studies

Gender Studies

Bellissima Feminine Beauty and the Idea of Italy

Gundle Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300176803, Yale University Press, July 2007
328 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.

"Das Rheingold", "Die Walkure", and "Siegfried". Parsifal. Tristan und Isolde. Both revered and reviled, Richard Wagner conceived some of the nineteenth century's most influential operas – and created some of the most indelible characters ever to gra...

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History of Art

Painted Face Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914

Garb Tamar

ISBN: HB: 9780300111187, Yale University Press, June 2007
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 50 colour images, 150black&white illus.

While a painted portrait usually seems to need little explanation, a closer look may reveal that its meaning and even its subject are far more complex than expected. This book charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from it...

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History of Art

Unknown Monet Pastels and Drawings

Ganz James A., Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300118629, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 30.5x23 cm, 225 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, with myriad publications and exhibitions devoted to his oeuvre. And yet, there remains a previously undiscovered aspect of his career: his surprisingly...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Perth and Kinross Buildings of Scotland

Gifford John

ISBN: HB: 9780300109221, Yale University Press, March 2007
640 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Perth and Kinross, at the geographical heart of Scotland, contain buildings which range from the remains of a Roman line of forts and watch towers (the fort at Ardoch, of the first and second centuries, is one of the best preserved and least known of...

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History of Art

Piero Di Cosimo Visions Beautiful and Strange

Geronimus Dennis

ISBN: HB: 9780300109115, Yale University Press, November 2006
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522) is known today, as he was in his own time, for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. Endlessly inventiv...

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Europe

Numbered Days Diaries and the Holocaust

Garbarini Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300112528, Yale University Press, October 2006
320 pp., 24.1x16.6 cm

As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their child...

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