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History of Art

Prato Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-state

McLean Alick M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137149, Yale University Press, January 2009
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour images, 102 black&white illus.

This handsome book recounts the historical development of one city republic, Prato in Tuscany, from the eleventh through the fourteenth century. In telling the story of Prato's origins, construction, and demise, Alick McLean considers the planning, a...

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Philosophy

Provisional Politics Kantian Arguments in Policy Context

Ellis Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300125221, Yale University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging...

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Contemporary Art

Paris Portraits Artists, Friends, and Lovers

Silver Kenneth E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300145434, Yale University Press, September 2008
224 pp., 30.5x24 cm, 45 full page colour, 125 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

The art of portraiture reached a pinnacle of expressive achievement in early twentieth-century Paris. Liberated by the advent of photography, artists were able to reimagine the nature of human portrayal, producing kinds of portraits – Fauve, Cubist,...

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Contemporary Art

Paul McCarthy Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films

Iles Chrissie

ISBN: HB: 9780300141382, Yale University Press, August 2008
80 pp., 24.1x22.2 cm, 5 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture – a feeling of psychological breakdown – in the work of one of America's most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is pub...

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History of Art

Painting Out of the Ordinary Modernity and the Art of Everyday Life in Early Nineteenth-century Britain

Solkin David H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140613, Yale University Press, July 2008
384 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm, 100 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, London's art world was taken by storm by a new generation of painters, whose novel approach to the depiction of everyday life critics loudly trumpeted as a sign of the nation's cultural pre-eminence. Led by the p...

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History of Art

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

MacLeod Catharine, Marciari Alexander Julia, Harris Tim, O'Connell Sheila, Roach Joseph, Sharpe Kevin, Shifrin Susan, Walkling Andrew, Weil Rachel, Zwicker Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300116564, Yale University Press, February 2008
214 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behaviour of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "...

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Contemporary Art

Pop Art Is

Francis Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300138993, Yale University Press, January 2008
180 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, more than 100 colour illus.

On January 26, 1957, Richard Hamilton wrote a now-famous letter outlining his definition of what "Pop Art Is". This volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Hamilton's prophetic document, presenting the works of more than forty artists from his...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Pentateuch An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible

Blenkinsopp Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300140217, Yale University Press, December 2007
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"The Pentateuch" (its Greek name, but also known as the Torah by the Hebrews) consists of the first five books of the Bible: "Genesis", "Exodus", "Leviticus", "Numbers", and "Deuteronomy". From Adam and Eve in the Garden, to Noah's Ark, to Moses' par...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Peoples of an Almighty God Competing Religions in the Ancient World

Goldstein Jonathan A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140590, Yale University Press, December 2007
592 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps

Some ancient civilizations, notably the Babylonians and the Israelites, held fast to the belief that their particular god (or gods) were stronger than all other heavenly powers and gods combined, supremely able to protect their well-being and success...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Proverbs 1-9

Fox Michael V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139594, Yale University Press, December 2007
496 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In "Proverbs 1-9," Bible scholar Michael V. Fox translates and explains the meaning of the first nine chapters of this profound, timeless book, and examines their place in the intellectual history of ancient Israel. This thorough study of Proverbs in...

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