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Alexander Calder 1898-1976by Marla Prather, Alexander Calder, A. S. C. RowerISBN 0300075189 (0-300-07518-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Around the World in 80 Daysby Jules VerneISBN 0304317691 (0-304-31769-1)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independenceby Anatol LievenISBN 0300060785 (0-300-06078-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Beaton: Portraitsby Peter Conrad, Terence Pepper, Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, Roy StrongISBN 0300102895 (0-300-10289-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beaton: Portraits'Book summary:Sir Cecil Beaton (1904--1980) was one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. A major contributor to Vogue and Vanity Fair in Britain, France, and America, Beaton captured for posterity such admired subjects as artists Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, and Richard Avedon; actresses Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and Greta Garbo; statesmen and politicians Winston Churchill and Robert Kennedy; and, of course, Britain's Royal Family. This sumptuously illustrated book--published on the centenary of Beaton's birth--brings together many of his evocative portraits in celebration of his remarkable life and work. Gifted in an extraordinary range of fields, Beaton was noted for his flamboyant sense of style. His portraits, fashion photographs, book jacket designs, war reportage, designs for theater and film, and diaries mark him as one of the first international multi-media artists. This book features an illustrated essay discussing the wide range of the photographer's career as well as a portfolio of 160 beautiful reproductions of his most famous portraits and an extended illustrated chronology. Beaton: Portraits is an exciting and comprehensive look at a tour-de-force photographer and is an essential book for anyone interested in photography, fashion, or twentieth-century style and design. [via]
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Ben Jonsonby Ben JonsonISBN 0300015127 (0-300-01512-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Brewer's Dictionary of 20th-Century Phrase and Fableby Alan Isaacs, Elizabeth Martin, David PickeringISBN 0304340596 (0-304-34059-6)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837by Linda ColleyISBN 0300107595 (0-300-10759-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Byzantiumby Tamara Talbot Rice, Margaret ScottISBN 0298178559 (0-298-17855-9)
Hardcover, Hart-Davis Educational
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Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotationsby Jonathon GreenISBN 0304345903 (0-304-34590-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations'Book summary:It's hard to resist a book that has for its own jacket copy the following sentence: "Cruel, snide, rude and bitchy, the Cassell Dictionary of Insulting Quotations records the human spirit at its least spiritual." For once, there's truth in advertising: this book is a glorious celebration of how scathingly, hilariously, and aptly mean people have been to one another through the centuries. In its pages you'll find writers skewering writers; politicians badmouthing other politicians; nations insulting other nations; and, of course, critics savaging everyone in sight. There's Georges Clemenceau on the United States: "America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." Or Robert Hughes on the artist Jeff Koons: "The last bit of methane left in the intestine of the dead cow that is post-modernism." It's all good, dirty fun--and great for plagiarizing the next time you need witty dinner party repartee. Just be careful who you sit next to.... [via]
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Cassell Everyday Phrases: Their Origins and Meaningsby Neil EwartISBN 0304340642 (0-304-34064-2)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Chaucer and the Subject of Historyby Lee PattersonISBN 0299128342 (0-299-12834-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Chaucer's Sexual Poeticsby Carolyn DinshawISBN 0299122743 (0-299-12274-3)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Children of the Roojme: A Family's Journey from Lebanonby Elmaz AbinaderISBN 0299157342 (0-299-15734-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Chronicles of the Wars of the Rosesby Elizabeth HallamISBN 0297794396 (0-297-79439-6)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Orderby Peter HallISBN 0297842196 (0-297-84219-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order'Book summary:Every golden age has been an urban age; throughout history, cities have provided a crucible for creativity. How do such belles époquescome about? Why should the creative flame burn so uniquely in cities and not in the countryside, and why does the creative and innovative spirit of one city inevitably yield to another? Cities in Civilization explores these issues and others related to the central role of cities, past and present, in the fostering of artistic, philosophical, scientific, and technological genius.
Peter Hall devoted 15 years of his life conceptualizing, researching, and writing Cities in Civilization. His extraordinary efforts are apparent in the analytical scope, historical depth, and sheer length of the book, which, including photographs and a bibliography, is well over 1,000 pages. Supporting his argument with ample reference to dates, historical figures, and citations of leading urban scholars, the book does not lend itself to casual, cover-to-cover reading. Despite the book's length, though, it remains easy to navigate through the case studies of individual cities. Hall systematically divides the text into five thematic chapters, further subdividing each chapter chronologically by city. The chapters explore themes of cultural creativity, technological and economic innovation, the urban fusion of art and technology, urban innovation, and the partnership of the private and public sector to promote urban development and regeneration.
Breaking from other leading scholars in the field, Hall does not consider the great city doomed. Instead, Cities in Civilization testifies to his confidence that cities of the 21st century, like the great cities of the past, will successfully work to solve their own problems and ameliorate their own ills. --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The Complete Poemsby Henry Vaughan, Alan RudrumISBN 0300026870 (0-300-02687-0)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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The Complete English Poemsby Samuel Johnson, J. D. FleemanISBN 0300028261 (0-300-02826-1)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgementby Geoffrey Skelton, Cosima WagnerISBN 0300069049 (0-300-06904-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imaginationby A.D. NuttallISBN 0300098405 (0-300-09840-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracyby David CannadineISBN 0300047614 (0-300-04761-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Dialogues of Plato: The Republicby Plato, R.E. AllenISBN 0300114508 (0-300-11450-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Diplomacy for the Next Centuryby Abba EbanISBN 0300078609 (0-300-07860-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diplomacy for the Next Century'Book summary:"Few 20th century diplomats match Abba Eban in intelligence and experience, and none in wit; so his reflections on diplomatic challenges int he century to come are uncommonly perceptive, rewarding and readable". -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
"Abba Eban's book is part statecraft, part diplomatic history, part autobiography, and entirely absorbing. His insights are as lucid as they are elegant, reaffirming his place as one of the most knowledgeable, wise, and eloquent of modern diplomats". -- Henry A. Kissinger
"Diplomacy can only gain in public esteem by shaking off the intrinsically insoluble arguments about virtue and conscience and concentrating on more practical goals. Reciprocal self-interest is and should remain the central theme". -- from Diplomacy for the Next Century
In this wise and eloquent book, one of the world's preeminent senior statesmen presents his views on the challenges of diplomacy in the post-Cold War era. Abba Eban, who has been Israel's ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States as well as the foreign minister in several Israeli governments, draws on his years of experience and knowledge to offer an overview of diplomacy as practiced in today's world.
Interweaving historical data with personal reminiscences, Eban reviews the Cold War period and its end in 1989, praising the diplomatic restraint in the years that have followed; discusses the ethical confrontation between power and conscience in a wide range of international decisions and actions; and points out the difficulty of reconciling the promotion of universal human rights with respect for national sovereignty. Eban goes oil to deplore the lack of privacy in international negotiationsthat is the result of an increasingly intrusive media, shows that nuclear warfare is not a restraint against frequent military intervention, and warns against inflated views of what can be expected from the United Nations. He concludes with thoughts about the quest for peace in the Middle East.
Instructive, erudite, and witty, Eban's tour through diplomatic history vividly demonstrates that the wisdom of the past can be immensely valuable as we seek to negotiate and maintain peace in the future. [via]
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Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamerby Stephen WildmanISBN 0300085826 (0-300-08582-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Emilio's Carnivalby Italo Svevo, Beth Archer BrombertISBN 0300090498 (0-300-09049-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emilio's Carnival (Senilita)'Book summary:Italo Svevo's early novel Senilita (1898) remained unknown for many years until James Joyce encountered the novelist in Trieste and came to admire Senilita as a preeminent modern Italian novel. Joyee helped to launch Svevo's career, and years later Svevo achieved great fame with his masterpiece, Confessions of Zeno. In Senilita, Svevo tells the story of the amorous entanglement of Emilio, a failed writer already old at thirty-five, and Angiolina, a seductively beautiful but promiscuous young woman. A study in jealousy and self-torment, the novel traces the intoxicating effect of a narcissistic and amoral woman on an indecisive daydreamer who vacillates between guilt and moral smugness. The novel is suffused with a tragic sense of existence, and the unbreachable distance between one consciousness and another. Svevo's unmistakably modern voice subtly captures rapid shifts in mood and intention, exploiting irony, indirection, and multiple points of view to reveal Emilio's increasing anguish as he comes to recognise the dissonance between himself and his world. [via]
English Herb Gardensby Guy Cooper, Gordon Taylor, Clive BoursnellISBN 0297791311 (0-297-79131-1)
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Errata: An Examined Lifeby George SteinerISBN 0300080956 (0-300-08095-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faust'Book summary:Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Five Days in London, May 1940by John LukacsISBN 0300084668 (0-300-08466-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Days in London, May 1940'Book summary:In his six-volume history of World War II, Winston Churchill deemed the year 1942 as "the hinge of fate," the year in which the German and Japanese armies began to be turned back. John Lukacs suggests that the last days of May 1940 were more important still in turning the tide of war in democracy's favor, for it was in those few days that Churchill convinced his cabinet that Britain should fight on, alone, if need be, against Adolf Hitler's regime. Even as a quarter of a million British troops were being evacuated from Dunkirk, Churchill struggled to reverse the British government's policy of appeasement. In this, he faced opposition from several quarters, including prominent figures within his own Conservative Party. Writing with evident admiration for Churchill--who, he points out, was not well liked, and who had been prime minister for only two weeks when war broke out--Lukacs gives his readers a fly-on-the-wall view of the heated conferences between such well-known participants as Harold Nicholson, Lord Halifax, Neville Chamberlain, and Alexander Cadogan.
"Churchill understood something that not many people understand even now," Lukacs writes in the closing pages of his book. "The greatest threat to Western civilization was not Communism. It was National Socialism. The greatest and most dynamic power in the world was not Soviet Russia. It was the Third Reich of Germany. The greatest revolutionary of the twentieth century was not Lenin or Stalin. It was Hitler." By convincing his government that his view was correct, Churchill afforded Western civilization a slim chance at survival--no small achievement, and one well worth honoring with this fine study. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Future of the Middle Eastby Bernard LewisISBN 0297819801 (0-297-81980-1)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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G. :a Novelby John BergerISBN 0297994239 (0-297-99423-9)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Garden, an English Love Affair: One Thousand Years of Gardeningby Jane Fearnley-WhittingstallISBN 0297843079 (0-297-84307-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Ageby Victor BersISBN 0300028121 (0-300-02812-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Henry Vaughan, the Complete Poemsby Henry VaughanISBN 0300026803 (0-300-02680-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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In the Wake of the Wakeby David Hayman, David and Elliott Anderson HaymanISBN 0299076008 (0-299-07600-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Wake of the Wake'Book summary:This ground-breaking exploration of the influential aura of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake initially appeared as a special issue of TriQuarterly (No. 38, Winter 1977). Available now in a permanent format, if offers both students and scholars an excellent introduction to major contemporary figures writing within the Joycean tradition.[via]More editions of In the Wake of the Wake:
Japan Among the Powers 1890-1990by Sydney GiffardISBN 0300058470 (0-300-05847-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Japan--the Paradox of Progressby Lewis Austin, Adrienne Suddard, Nancy RemingtonISBN 0300019572 (0-300-01957-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Libertyby Arthur H. CashISBN 0300108710 (0-300-10871-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebridesby Pat RogersISBN 0300052103 (0-300-05210-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Johnson and Boswell in Scotland: A Journey to the Hebrides'Book summary:In 1773 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell made their celebrated journey through the Highlands of Scotland and the Hebrides. Johnson published his great account, the "Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland" in 1775, and it became one of the most acute - and popular - social commentaries of its age. The 33 year old Boswell composed his more anecdotal and high-spirited journal, "A Tour to the Hebrides", in 1786; it is chiefly a revelatory portrait of Johnson as he ventured into the unfamiliar regions of a remote part of Britain. This edition, in which the two accounts are presented side-by-side, page-by-page, makes it possible to compare both versions of a single experience. Johnson's text is presented in full, while Boswell's writing has been edited so that his narrative stands adjacent to the same portion of Johnson's text. Johnson's account is augmented by a selection of the letters written during the journey to his friend, Mrs Hester Thrale. The book is divided into sections covering the successive stages of the journey, so that each phase of the trip is allotted a chapter of its own. The book also contains an editorial introduction, a glossary of names, a note on the publishing history of the two narratives and scholarly notation. Numerous contemporary illustrations accompany the text, depicting the flavour of the region as the travellers encountered it more than two centuries ago. [via]
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The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795by John WainISBN 0300060742 (0-300-06074-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Journey to the Western Islands of Scotlandby Samuel JohnsonISBN 0300012519 (0-300-01251-9)
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Justinian and the Later Roman Empireby John W. BarkerISBN 0299039447 (0-299-03944-7)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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The Life and Times of Victoriaby Dorothy MarshallISBN 0297994387 (0-297-99438-7)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Londonby Michael LeapmanISBN 0297796240 (0-297-79624-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Long Day's Journey into Nightby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0300093055 (0-300-09305-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Long Day's Journey into Night'Book summary:This work is interesting enough for its history. Completed in 1940, Long Day's Journey Into Night is an autobiographical play Eugene O'Neill wrote that--because of the highly personal writing about his family--was not to be released until 25 years after his death, which occurred in 1953. But since O'Neill's immediate family had died in the early 1920s, his wife allowed publication of the play in 1956. Besides the history alone, the play is fascinating in its own right. It tells of the "Tyrones"--a fictional name for what is clearly the O'Neills. Theirs is not a happy tale: The youngest son (Edmond) is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis; he despises his father for sending him; his mother is wrecked by narcotics; and his older brother by drink. In real-life these factors conspired to turn O'Neill into who he was--a tormented individual and a brilliant playwright. [via]
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Lost in a Book: The Psychology of Reading for Pleasureby Victor NellISBN 0300049064 (0-300-04906-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Major Poems And Selected Prose: Algernon Charles Swinburneby Algernon Charles Swinburne, Charles L. SlighISBN 0300104995 (0-300-10499-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Max Ernst: A Retrospectiveby Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Sabine RewaldISBN 0300107188 (0-300-10718-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Middle East: 2,000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Dayby Bernard LewisISBN 0297813455 (0-297-81345-5)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Drawing on material from a multitude of sources, including the work of archaeologists and scholars, Lewis chronologically traces the political, economical, social, and cultural development of the Middle East, from Hellenization in antiquity to the impact of westernization on Islamic culture. Meticulously researched, this enlightening narrative explores the patterns of history that have repeated themselves in the Middle East.
From the ancient conflicts to the current geographical and religious disputes between the Arabs and the Israelis, Lewis examines the ability of this region to unite and solve its problems and asks if, in the future, these unresolved conflicts will ultimately lead to the ethnic and cultural factionalism that tore apart the former Yugoslavia. [via]
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Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporationby Richard R. Brettell, Natalie Henderson Lee, Singapore Museum of ArtISBN 0300081340 (0-300-08134-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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With major masterpieces ranging from an 1872 painting by Claude Monet to a 1964 bronze by Henry Moore, the Sara Lee Collection was assembled in 1980, five years before Cummingss death. Since then it has been exhibited in or made loans to many museums throughout the world. In 1998, the corporation announced an unprecedented gift of the entire collection to a group of forty art museums, twenty-five in the United States and fifteen in international cities in which Sara Lee Corporation has a major presence. This Millennium Gift is the largest single gift to the arts in American history and the first to include institutions outside the United States.
This book discusses the Nathan Cummings Collection, the Sara Lee Collection, and the Millennium Gift. It also includes an essay on each of the fifty-two works that places the work in the context of the artists oeuvre, proposes new interpretations, and discusses the position of the art in the collections of the recipient museums throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated, the book also provides more than 200 comparative photographs.More editions of Monet to Moore: The Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation:
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slaveby Frederick Douglass, John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Gerald Fulkerson, Peter P. HinksISBN 0300087012 (0-300-08701-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave'Book summary:Frederick Douglass's autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, is widely regarded as a classic of American nineteenth-century history, of African-American studies, and of literature. In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Douglass published this powerful account of his life as a slave and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, the brutalities of his owners and overseers, and his harrowing escape to the North. This edition of the book, based on the authoritative text that appears in Yale University Press's multivolume edition of the Frederick Douglass Papers , is the only edition of Douglass's Narrative designated as an Approved Text by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions. It includes a chronology of Douglass's life, a thorough introduction by the eminent Douglass scholar John Blassingame, historical notes, and reader responses to the first edition of 1845. "None so dramatically as Douglass integrated both the horror and the great quest of the African-American experience into the deep stream of American autobiography. He advanced and extended that tradition and is rightfully designated one of its greatest practitioners."-John W. Blassingame, from the introduction [via]
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave : Written by Himselfby John W. Blassingame, John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks, Frederick DouglassISBN 0300088310 (0-300-08831-0)
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The National Gallery Companion Guideby Erika LangmuirISBN 0300061331 (0-300-06133-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The National Gallery Companion Guide'Book summary:[via]This beautifully illustrated and updated National Gallery Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world. Erika Langmuir offers enlightening commentary on more than 200 of the finest worksby painters including Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Ingres, and Degasfrom the National Gallerys collection, along with masterpieces by less familiar artists.
With this book, readers can trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries; develop an eye for style, technique, imagery, and genre; and learn to appreciate the talents of artists in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts. The book takes into account the latest scholarship from the National Gallery and includes discussions of the museums newest high-profile acquisitions.
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The Needle's Eyeby Margaret DrabbleISBN 0297993992 (0-297-99399-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Norwegian-English Dictionaryby E HaugenISBN 0299038742 (0-299-03874-2)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscowby Irina Antonova, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, High Museum of Art, E. B. Georgievskaia, Elena Sharnova, Charlotte Nalle EyermanISBN 0300097360 (0-300-09736-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Old Masters, Impressionists, and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow'Book summary:This volume, the catalogue for a collaborative exhibition in the United States between the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brings together a selection of notable French paintings from the Pushkin Museum, one of the world's great art museums. The text tells the story of the Russian taste for French art. Essays highlight such collectors as Catherine the Great, members of the Russian nobility such as the Yusupovs and the Golitsyns, and the early-20th-century merchant-patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov. The authors relate how works from these distinguished collections were united at the Pushkin Museum to form one of the most impressive arrays of French paintings outside of France. The volume reproduces and discusses 76 of the museum's most important holdings, including masterpieces by Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Camille Corot, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, some of which, like Monet's "Le Boulevard des Capucines", are also landmark works in the history of art. [via]
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The Oregon Trailby Francis Parkman, E.N. FeltskogISBN 029905070X (0-299-05070-X)
Hardcover, University of Wisconsin Press
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Poems About Warby Robert GravesISBN 0304322296 (0-304-32229-6)
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Poems on the Undergroundby Gerard Benson, Judith Chernaik, Cicely HerbertISBN 0304342521 (0-304-34252-1)
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The Poetry of Michelangeloby James M. SaslowISBN 0300055099 (0-300-05509-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetry of Michelangelo'Book summary:This is the only available bilingual edition of the more than three hundred sonnets, madrigals, and other poems produced by Michelangelo over his long career. The poems are invaluable for what they reveal of the artist's innermost feelings about such universal themes as love, death, and redemption. "A superb introduction to Michelangelo's life, a masterful bilingual presentation of his written work, commentaries, and an annotated bibliography. . . . A handsome volume of pure scholarship that will find a permanent place in one's library, to be dipped into from time to time as a source of deep enjoyment."-Virginia Quarterly Review "For educated readers who want to know what Michelangelo's poetry manages to do, who want a guide through the Italian and even more through the conventions that enabled Michelangelo to write at all, this is an indispensable book."-Richard Howard "The exceptionally difficult task of translating Michelangelo's poetry has been accomplished with aplomb: equally successful is the no less difficult task of placing the poems within their biographical, social, intellectual, and artistic context. Saslow's annotated translation will be the standard critical edition of Michelangelo's poetry."-William E. Wallace [via]
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The Princeby Carnes Lord, Niccolo Machiavelli, Hadley Arkes, Angelo M. Codevilla, William Barclay AllenISBN 0300064039 (0-300-06403-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:A classic of the western tradition, Machiavelli's "The Prince" has influenced political and philosophical thought since its publication four centuries ago. Political power, Machiavelli taught, has no limits. It leaves no room for the sacred, and it subordinates right and wrong to success. In this new edition of Machiavelli's book, Angelo Codevilla provides a translation faithful to the original and sensitive to the author's use of verbal imprecision, including puns, double meanings, and the subjunctive mood. The volume includes an introduction by Codevilla that places Machiavelli in the context of his own times, demonstrates his relevance to the history of political thought, and inquiries into the place of Machiavelli's ideas in modern debates. This edition also contains three essays that explore some of the most important ways "The Prince" clashes with the other main branch of western civilization - the Socratic and Judeo-Christian traditions: "Machiavelli's realism" by Carnes Lord, "Machiavelli and modernity" by W.B. Allen, and "Machiavelli and America" by Hadley Arkes. [via]
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The Republic: Platoby Reginald E. Allen, PlatoISBN 0300114516 (0-300-11451-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Republic: Plato'Book summary:[via]R. E. Allens highly regarded translations of the dialogues of Plato have been praised for their faithfulness and readability. Many years in the making, his translation of The Republic has been eagerly awaited. It comes now to crown a distinguished classicists efforts to make Platos works available in readable and accurate translations. This new, lucid translation of Platos greatest dialogue is the first major translation in English since the publication of F. M. Cornfords and G. M. A. Grubes renditions more than a generation ago. It is likely to be the standard translation for years to come.
This edition, intended for the student and general reader, is accompanied by Allens notes and introduction. The Republic is, of course, many things: metaphysics and epistemology, moral psychology and ethics, educational theory and aesthetics, and poetry and eschatology. In his introduction, Allen takes up its threshold questionthe politicaland argues that its particular formulation by Plato had a direct and profound influence on the Founding Fathers and the development of American constitutional law.More editions of The Republic: Plato:
Richard IIIby Charles RossISBN 0300079796 (0-300-07979-6)
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Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country Houseby Mark GirouardISBN 0300023898 (0-300-02389-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Sesame and Liliesby Jan Marsh, John Ruskin, Seth Koven, Deborah Epstein Nord, Elizabeth HelsingerISBN 0300092598 (0-300-09259-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sesame and Lilies'Book summary:John Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", first published in 1865, stands as a classic 19th-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early 20th century. This volume reunites the two halves of the work: "Of Kings' Treasuries", in which Ruskin critiques Victorian manhood, and "Of Queens' Gardens", in which he counsels women to take their places as the moral guides of men and urges the parents of girls to educate them to this end. Feminist critics of the 1960s and 1970s regarded "Of Queens' Gardens" as an exemplary expression of repressive Victorian ideas about femininity, and they paired it with John Stuart Mill's more progressive "Subjection of Women". This volume, by including the often ignored "Of Kings' Treasuries", offers readers full access to Ruskin's complex and sometimes contradictory views on men and women. The accompanying essays place "Sesame and Lilies" within historical debates on men, women, culture and the family. Elizabeth Helsinger examines the text as a meditation on the pleasures of reading; Seth Koven gives a wide-ranging account of how Victorians read "Sesame and Lilies"; and Jan Marsh situates the work within controversies over educational reform. [via]
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Sesame and Liliesby John Ruskin, Deborah Epstein NordISBN 0300092601 (0-300-09260-1)
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Sir Thomas Wyatt, The Complete Poemsby Thomas Wyatt, R.A. RebholzISBN 0300026811 (0-300-02681-1)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Sissinghurst: Portrait of a Gardenby Jane Brown, John MillerISBN 0297833502 (0-297-83350-2)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Stanley Spencer: An English Visionby Fiona MacCarthyISBN 0300073372 (0-300-07337-2)
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Styleby F.L. LucasISBN 0304293652 (0-304-29365-2)
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The Thamesby Jonathan SchneerISBN 0300107862 (0-300-10786-2)
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A Touch of the Poet: Playby Eugene O'NeillISBN 0300008090 (0-300-00809-0)
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Trent 1475: Stories of a Ritual Murder Trialby R. Pochia HsiaISBN 0300068727 (0-300-06872-7)
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Tribes of Britainby David MilesISBN 0297830864 (0-297-83086-4)
Hardcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tribes of Britain'Book summary:The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures and settlements, place names and dialects. Using the latest genetic and archaeological research, the author shows how different peoples traded, settled and conquered, establishing the 'tribal' and regional roots still apparent today. Its vast scope considers the impact of prehistoric peoples and Celtic tribes, Romans and Vikings, Saxons and Normans, Jews and Huguenots, as well as the increasing population movements of the last century. [via]
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Tyndale's Old Testament: Being the Pentateuch of 1530, Joshua to 2 Chronicles of 1537, and Jonahby William TyndaleISBN 0300052111 (0-300-05211-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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What Is Good: The Search for the Best Way to Liveby A. C. GraylingISBN 0297841327 (0-297-84132-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Where Was Rebecca Shot: Curiosities, Puzzles, and Conundrums in Modern Fictionby John SutherlandISBN 0297841467 (0-297-84146-7)
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William Merritt Chase: The Paintings in Pastel, Monotypes, Painted Tiles And Ceramic Plates, Watercolors,...by Ronald G. Pisano, D. Frederick Baker, Marjorie ShellyISBN 0300109962 (0-300-10996-2)
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William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact upon Englandby David C. DouglasISBN 0300078846 (0-300-07884-6)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debateby Leila AhmedISBN 0300055838 (0-300-05583-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gouldby Kevin BazzanaISBN 0300103743 (0-300-10374-3)
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