Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Hardback. Fascinating profiles of the leading architects of the 1930s during a crucial period in the evolution of modernism Series: Yale School of Architecture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 124 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300115659
- ISBN
- 9780300115659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.24€ 53.53
€ 68.24
€ 53.53
Hardback. The sleek lines and gleaming facades of the architecture of the late 1940s and 1950s reflect a culture fascinated by the promise of the Jet Age. This work draws on a vast range of sources to argue that the aesthetics of mid-century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with 'glamour'. Num Pages: 272 pages, 125 black-&-white illustrations & 40 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 225 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300116540
- ISBN
- 9780300116540
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Condition: New
€ 77.14€ 60.10
€ 77.14
€ 60.10
Hardback. The court of France in the sixteenth century has often been seen merely as a focus of political intrigue and conflict. This book traces its evolution from a nomadic institution to a more sedentary one. It explores the political and cultural importance of the French court through seven reigns from Charles VIII to Henry III. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; 3JB; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1176.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300118513
- ISBN
- 9780300118513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.64
€ 43.99
€ 31.64
Hardback. Presents in their broad, historical context the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a severe outbreak of the plague in which one quarter of the Venetian population perished. This work sheds fresh light on the historical machine that produced the distinct civic and cultural ethos of the city. Num Pages: 288 pages, 120 b&w illustrations + 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300119374
- ISBN
- 9780300119374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.44€ 40.40
€ 50.44
€ 40.40
Hardback. Luxurious, beautiful, and portable, tapestry was the pre-eminent art form of the Tudor court. Henry VIII amassed an unrivaled collection over the course of his reign. This work weaves the history of this collection into the life of its owner with a narrative style. It also includes photographs that recreates Europe's greatest tapestry collection. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 440 pages, 114 b&w illustrations and 206 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JB; ACND; AFWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 286 x 37. Weight in Grams: 2296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300122343
- ISBN
- 9780300122343
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.34€ 50.65
€ 59.34
€ 50.65
Paperback. Can a single organization be committed to political activism and charitable good works while simultaneously dispatching suicide bombers to attack civilian targets? This book provides a documented assessment of Hamas, showing the alarming extent to which the group's political and social welfare leaders support terrorism. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JMC; JFSR2; JPL; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300122589
- ISBN
- 9780300122589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Hardback. The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. In this book, the author reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Num Pages: 412 pages, 24 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; HPCD1; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 240 x 40. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300123586
- ISBN
- 9780300123586
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.73
€ 46.99
€ 33.73
Hardback. A work of reference on the history of British architecture, containing biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practised in England, Scotland and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones (1573-1652) to that of William Burn (1789-1870) and Sir Charles Barry (1795-1860). Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 1264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; AM; GBCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 242 x 56. Weight in Grams: 1686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300125085
- ISBN
- 9780300125085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.01€ 68.86
€ 89.01
€ 68.86
Hardback. Looks at a neglected corner of eighteenth-century art - the funeral monument. This book demonstrates that tombs and inscriptions are of manifest worth to the student of eighteenth-century English value systems, providing as they do an archaeology of ideal types. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 60 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 267 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2022.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135411
- ISBN
- 9780300135411
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 55.15
€ 65.27
€ 55.15
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135435
- ISBN
- 9780300135435
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Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 42.58
€ 53.41
€ 42.58
Hardback. During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, 'whore', celebrity, muse, and creative agent. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, 85 b&w illustrations and 50 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; 3JH; AN; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1565.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300135442
- ISBN
- 9780300135442
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 42.58
€ 53.41
€ 42.58
Hardback. The print repertoire of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England has been neglected historically. This book provides an iconographic survey of the single-sheet prints produced in Britain during the early modern era and reveals significant discoveries from this visual storehouse. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 400 pages, 270 black-&-white illustrations & 20 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; ACN; ACQ; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 291 x 256 x 41. Weight in Grams: 2692.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300136975
- ISBN
- 9780300136975
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Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 46.16
€ 53.41
€ 46.16
Hardback. Focuses on artwork produced from the 1950s to the 1970s, when Mao Zedong was in leadership. This book argues that important contributions were made during this period that require fuller consideration in Chinese art history, especially with relevance to the contemporary world. Editor(s): Shengtian, Zheng. Series: Asia Society. Num Pages: 280 pages, 50 black & white illustrations + 150 colour images. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 305 x 229 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1919.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300140644
- ISBN
- 9780300140644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.08€ 68.61
€ 83.08
€ 68.61
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
€ 15.99€ 12.79
€ 15.99
€ 12.79
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300144932
- ISBN
- 9780300144932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Surveys a fresh chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Series: Princeton University Art Museum. Num Pages: 144 pages, 11 b/w + 88 color illus. BIC Classification: 3JMC; ACXJ5; AFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 237 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1014.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300149289
- ISBN
- 9780300149289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 33.81
€ 50.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. The spread of Renaissance culture in England coincided with the birth of the profession of architecture, whose practitioners became superior to simple builders in social standing and perceived intellectual prowess. This book explores the extent to which this professional identity was based on expertise in the mathematical arts and sciences. Num Pages: 192 pages, 120 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 290 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300150933
- ISBN
- 9780300150933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 51.34
€ 65.27
€ 51.34
Hardback. The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern, secular peace movement in Britain, and the impact of ideas about 'positive peace' on their artistic practice. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 244 pages, 40 colour images + 100 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJC; 3JJF; ACXD2; DSBH; JPWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1124.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300151954
- ISBN
- 9780300151954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.72
€ 26.99
€ 20.72
Paperback. Exploring Mexican, American, and Indian sources ranging from diplomatic correspondence and congressional debates to captivity narratives and plains Indians' pictorial calendars, this book presents ways in which economic, cultural, and political developments within native communities affected nineteenth-century nation-states. Series: The Lamar Series in Western History. Num Pages: 496 pages, 31 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300158373
- ISBN
- 9780300158373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. The arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms. This title argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies and publications. It also examines the status of the mechanical arts from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 576 pages, 200 black-&-white illustrations + 60 colour images. BIC Classification: 3JF; AGP; AK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 214 x 40. Weight in Grams: 2424. Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 576 pages, 200 black-&-white illustrations + 60 colour images. The arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms. This title argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies and publications. It also examines the status of the mechanical arts from the medieval period to the seventeenth century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JF; AGP; AK. Dimension: 287 x 214 x 40. Weight: 2424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300160420
- ISBN
- 9780300160420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.34€ 50.65
€ 59.34
€ 50.65
Hardback. Explores how art, design, and performance registered the changes in the Edwardian period (1901-1910) and helped to precipitate them. Acknowledging familiar divisions between the neo-Baroque magnificence of central London and the slums of the East End, this title discusses the middlebrow culture that characterizes the anonymous edge of the city. Editor(s): O'Neill, Morna; Hatt, Michael. Series: Yale Center for British Art. Num Pages: 336 pages, 90 black-&-white illustrations + colour images. BIC Classification: 3JJC; ABA; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1092.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300163353
- ISBN
- 9780300163353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.41€ 42.58
€ 53.41
€ 42.58
Paperback. Examines the Soviet communist party's financial operations and its budget from the 1930s through 1960s, providing a fresh look at the evolution of the party and its role in the Soviet economy and society as a whole. Series: The Yale-Hoover Series on Authoritarian Regimes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 21 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; JPFC; JPL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300164367
- ISBN
- 9780300164367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Hardback. The garden suburb has its origins in London, and, contrary to wide-spread belief, its earliest phase took place not at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the much discussed garden-city movement, but one century earlier. This book provides an account of the Eyre Estate. Num Pages: 480 pages, 250 colour images + 55 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; AMVD; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 282 x 252 x 41. Weight in Grams: 3122.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300167269
- ISBN
- 9780300167269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.27€ 55.15
€ 65.27
€ 55.15