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Christianity

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume 1: 10,000-586 B.C.E.

Mazar Amihai

ISBN: PB: 9780300140071, Yale University Press, December 2007
608 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

Every year thousands of enthusiasts, both amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that relate in some way to the places or events depicted in the Bible. Thousands more view artifacts in mu...

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Christianity

Archaeology & Paleontology

Archaeology of the Land of the Bible Volume 2: Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Periods (732-332 B.C.E.)

Stern Ephraim

ISBN: HB: 9780300140576, Yale University Press, December 2007
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, illus.

Every year thousands of enthusiasts, both amateur and professional, spend the summer months digging in the sands of Israel hoping to find items that relate in some way to the places or events depicted in the Bible. Thousands more view artifacts in mu...

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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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Fiction

Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare William

ISBN: PB: 9780300124736, Yale University Press, November 2007
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

"The Annotated Shakespeare" series enables today's readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and...

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History of Art

Art for Art's Sake Aestheticism in Victorian Painting

Prettejohn Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300135497, Yale University Press, October 2007
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 85 black&white illus.

This book is the first to explore the distinctive role of painting in the debates surrounding the notion of 'art for art's sake' and Aestheticism in Victorian England. In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, this artist...

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Cartoon Art

Art of William Steig

Nahson Claudia J., Cottingham Robert, Sorel Edward, Steig Jeanne, Steig Maggie, Sendak Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300124781, Yale University Press, October 2007
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 165 black&white illus., 131 colour illus.

Known for his brilliant cartoons and award-winning children's books, William Steig (1907-2003) leaves a legacy that spans much of the 20th century. This lavishly illustrated book features over 250 of Steig's drawings, many of them previously unpublis...

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Contemporary Art

Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300122527, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2007
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 colour illus.

This beautiful book features 63 paintings, sculptures, and drawings from "The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection", which was recently given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it will be exhibited beginning in September 2007. Long recogni...

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History of Art

Artist Grows Old The Aging of Art and Artists in Early Modern Italy

Sohm Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780300121230, Yale University Press, May 2007
224 pp., 24.6x17 cm, 25 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

How does the artist's self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of a...

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History of Art

Pelican History of Art

Arts of China After 1620

Watson William, Ho Chuimei

ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...

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Russian

Advanced Russian Through History

Rifkin Benjamin, Kagan Olga, Yatsenko Anna

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780300109474, Yale University Press, January 2007
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 5 maps, 8 photos

"Advanced Russian Through History" is a Russian reader for intermediate and advanced students of Russian and heritage learners of Russian. The book consists of 36 chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Ea...

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