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Girl's Childhood Psychological Development, Social Change, and the Yale Child Study Center
ISBN: HB: 9780300117592, Yale University Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the Yale Child Center joined together with the purpose of formulating a general psychoanalytic theory of children's early development. The group'...
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£65,00
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Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820 From Conquest to Independence
ISBN: HB: 9780300191011, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
"Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence" surveys the diverse styles, subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and...
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£50,00
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Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm
A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...
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£34,00
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Mountains and Plains The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes
ISBN: PB: 9780300185928, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 168 colour images, 77 black&white illus.
Many changes – some discouraging, others hopeful – have occurred in the Rocky Mountain region since the first edition of this widely acclaimed book was published. Wildlife habitat has become more fragmented, once-abundant sage grouse are now scarce,...
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£35,00
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Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...
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£30,00
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Rediscovering Architecture Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
ISBN: HB: 9780300195750, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour images, 185 black&white illus.
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely unlike the classical...
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£50,00
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Who Speaks for the Negro?
ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...
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£20,00
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Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of the Works on Paper, Volume 1: 1956-1976
ISBN: HB: 9780300209495, Yale University Press, December 2014
350 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 1040 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
This highly anticipated book – the first in a series of three – comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's work on paper, which comprises the largest component of his production of original works. Over 1,000 works on paper are do...
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£120,00
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Marble Index Roubiliac and Sculptural Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300204346, Yale University Press, December 2014
400 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour images, 300 black&white illus.
The first wide-ranging study of sculptural portraiture in eighteenth-century Britain, this book examines the significance of the bust and the statue as modes of representation within that culture. Adding a missing dimension to accounts of eighteenth-...
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£50,00
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Neo-Impressionism and the Dream of Realities Painting, Poetry, Music
ISBN: HB: 9780300190830, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.
This stunning catalogue explores the creative exchange between Neo-Impressionist painters and Symbolist writers and composers in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Symbolism, with its emphasis on subjectivity, dream worlds, and spirituality, has often b...
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£40,00
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