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Jewish Studies

Europe

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution

Kershaw Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300151275, Yale University Press, June 2009
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book is the culmination of more than three decades of meticulous historiographic research on Nazi Germany by one of the period's most distinguished historians. The volume brings together the most important and influential aspects of Ian Kershaw'...

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Design

Tatlin's Tower Monument to Revolution

Lynton Norbert

ISBN: HB: 9780300111309, Yale University Press, June 2009
192 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 colour images, 45 black&white illus.

The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key figure of Russian constructivism. Planned as the headquarters and monument of the Comin...

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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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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Gwynedd Buildings of Wales

Haslam Richard, Orbach Julian, Voelcker Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300141696, Yale University Press, May 2009
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The spectacular landscapes of Gwynedd – the historic counties of Anglesey, Caernarfon and Merioneth – are the setting for many of Wales' greatest buildings. Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech castles are unsurpassed as works of medieval militar...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Mark 8-16

Marcus Joel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141160, Yale University Press, May 2009
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In the final nine chapters of the "Gospel of Mark", Jesus increasingly struggles with his disciples' incomprehension of his unique concept of suffering messiahship and with the opposition of the religious leaders of his day. "The Gospel" recounts the...

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Design

Matthew Boulton Selling What All the World Desires

Mason Shena

ISBN: HB: 9780300143584, Yale University Press, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Matthew Boulton was an eighteenth-century designer, inventor, and industrialist, a consummate businessman, and co-founder of the influential Lunar Society. Now, on the bicentenary of his death, this book surveys his life and extraordinarily varied ac...

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Performing Arts

Ballet's Magic Kingdom Selected Writings on Dance in Russia (1911-1925)

Volynsky Akim, Rabinowitz Stanley J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164497, ISBN: HB: 9780300124620, Yale University Press, May 2009
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Akim Volynsky was a Russian literary critic, journalist, and art historian who became Saint Petersburg's liveliest and most prolific ballet critic in the early part of the twentieth century. This book, the first English edition of his provocative and...

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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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Architecture

Ancient Churches of Ethiopia

Phillipson David W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300141566, Yale University Press, May 2009
288 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 224 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

The kings of Aksum formally became Christian during the second quarter of the fourth century, making Ethiopia the second country in the world (after Armenia) officially to adopt the new faith. This landmark book is the first to integrate historical,...

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