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The Americas

Paperback. The power of Christmas derives from the appeal of its repeated rituals, and the presumed antiquity of its traditions. Christmas cards seemed inevitable, but in years the genre has been visibly in decline. This book explores the imagery, graphic forms, subject matter, and significance of Christmas cards in their chronological timeframe. Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture. Num Pages: 320 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFT; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176872
ISBN
9780300176872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176704
ISBN
9780300176704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.79

Hardback. Aalto built three major works in America that counted among the most important in his career: the Finland Pavilion at the New York World's Fair, Baker House at MIT, and the Library at Mount Angel Abbey, Oregon. This title deals with the complex nature of Aalto's experience with America. Editor(s): Anderson, Stanford; Fenske, Gail; Fixler, David. Num Pages: 320 pages, 150 colour images + 100 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 238 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1764.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300176001
ISBN
9780300176001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.44
€ 58.48

Hardback. Offers information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and non-native species, this title provides a botanical reference for the region's noncultivated plants. Illustrator(s): Farnsworth, Elizabeth J.; Morrison, Gordon. Num Pages: 992 pages, 1000 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; WNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 184 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300171549
ISBN
9780300171549
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.73
€ 84.79

Hardback. A brilliant capstone work that analyzes the entire history of Latin America's reception of Christianity Num Pages: 384 pages, 16-page black-&-white section. BIC Classification: 1KL; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 190 x 39. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300166804
ISBN
9780300166804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.69

Hardback. Donna and Howard Stone, two of Chicago's premier art patrons, have collected works of art in all media for more than 30 years, building one of the most distinguished private collections of contemporary art in the country. This title looks at the entire collection and highlights pieces included in the exhibit. Series: Contemporary Collecting. Num Pages: 160 pages, 229 halftone illustrations + 70 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 254 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1064.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300165487
ISBN
9780300165487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.21

Hardback. Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. This book documents fifty-six species of flowers and herbs and provides details on how they were cultivated and used. Series: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Num Pages: 304 pages, 265 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 277 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1732.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164541
ISBN
9780300164541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.43

Paperback. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the author's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In the preface, it discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying divine presences in human life. Num Pages: 360 pages, 19 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; 3JJ; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300157529
ISBN
9780300157529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.31

Paperback. Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the 'closet drama' - plays written largely for private reading - as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities. Series: Yale Studies in English. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 352. American Modernism and Queer Performance. Series: Yale Studies in English. 240 pages. Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the 'closet drama' - plays written largely for private reading - as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300155396
ISBN
9780300155396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.39

Hardback. Perhaps best known for his iconic paintings and sculptures of love, also featured on a US postage stamp, and hope, created in support of Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, Robert Indiana has been living and working in Maine since 1978. This book offers an examination of how Indiana's work has unfolded since his move to Vinalhaven. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 black-&-white illustration + 99 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXJ1; AGB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 241 x 18. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300154702
ISBN
9780300154702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.90

Hardback. Focuses on Homer Page's New York photographs taken while he was a Guggenheim Fellow during the late '40s. Series: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Num Pages: 144 pages, 98 duotone illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 284 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300154436
ISBN
9780300154436
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.50

Hardback. Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually amassing more than 1,600 works from the postwar period. Highlighting 130 works, this title presents the complete history of Baker's collection. Series: Yale University Art Gallery. Num Pages: 261 pages, 185 colour images + 35 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ACX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 235 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2070.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300153026
ISBN
9780300153026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.29

Hardback. A catalogue that presents a selection of approximately 100 of the finest watercolours, pastels, and drawings by American modernists from the Wadsworth Atheneum's renowned collection of American art. It features two essays exploring the historical significance of the collection and the importance to American modernists of working on paper. Series: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Num Pages: 216 pages, 190 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACXD2; AFCC; AFF; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151664
ISBN
9780300151664
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.44
€ 58.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300151435
ISBN
9780300151435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

Hardback. The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum's own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterranean from about 700 BC to around 1950. Series: Kimbell Art Museum. Num Pages: 344 pages, 25 black-&-white illustrations + 200 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 43. Weight in Grams: 3324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300144949
ISBN
9780300144949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.80
€ 49.38

Hardback. Explores the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture - a feeling of psychological breakdown - in the work of one of America's contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy. Series: Whitney Museum of American Art. Num Pages: 80 pages, 5 black & white illustrations + 25 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AFKN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 222 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300141382
ISBN
9780300141382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

Hardback. Examines the addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano; this expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, adds galleries for modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, as well as for photography, film and video, and architecture and design. Series: Art Institute of Chicago. Num Pages: 160 pages, 20 duotone illustrations + 120 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AGC; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 264 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300141122
ISBN
9780300141122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 32.94

Paperback. Presents a reinterpretation of American diplomatic history. This book addresses the challenges to the thesis. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300139259
ISBN
9780300139259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.31

Hardback. Examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. This book shows how and why agrarian Americans - yeoman farmers, gentleman planters, politicians, and policy makers alike - accepted, resisted, and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land. Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PDX; TVB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300139235
ISBN
9780300139235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.21

Hardback. The china used by the First Families, both at the White House and in their private homes, reveals a story of culture and society as it has evolved in the United States since its early days. This book documents over 200 items and sheds lights on the trends in taste, style, and modes of entertaining, from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Series: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Num Pages: 91 pages, 6 b&w illustrations + 94 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AFP; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 241 x 13. Weight in Grams: 626.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
91
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300135930
ISBN
9780300135930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.31

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