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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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America's Library: The Story of the Library of Congress, 1800-2000by James Conaway, Edmund MorrisISBN 0300083084 (0-300-08308-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850by Lester D. LangleyISBN 0300077262 (0-300-07726-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Americas in the Age of Revolution 1750-1850'Book summary:Within half a century, three European empires fell to American movements for independence. In this innovative and sophisticated account of comparative history, Lester D. Langley considers the revolutions in the American colonies, Saint Domingue (later Haiti), and the "Iberoamerican" independence movements in South America. He compares class leadership, racial factors, and the relative violence of each movement. His study alters the typical framework for analyzing American independence as he considers revolution from a dynamic or systemic perspective. Eschewing questions of causation such as "Why did the revolutions occur?" or "What did they achieve?" he explores instead the importance of place and location as well as what the revolts brought in terms of industrialization, militarization, and material progress. Professor Langley's arguments are based in an intriguing understanding of chaos theory, which he applies to the interpretation of historical experience in order to draw out the roles of probability and randomness as constraints on and conditions for the various revolutionary movements. [via]
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Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner's Guide to Writing Hieroglyphsby Henry G. FischerISBN 0300085672 (0-300-08567-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Art and Its Histories: A Readerby Steve EdwardsISBN 0300077440 (0-300-07744-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art and Its Histories: A Reader'Book summary:This volume presents eighty-nine influential texts that have played a significant role in shaping modern judgments and values about art. Emphasizing the debates and ideological assumptions around the Western canon of art, the book ranges through art history from Pliny the Elder to current issues of gender, post-colonialism, and museum policy.
A general introduction to the book provides a survey of recent debates on the canon of Western art. The source texts and critical writings of the volume are then organized around six art history topics: academies, museums, and canons of art; the changing status of the artist; gender and art; the challenge of the avant-garde; views of difference; and contemporary cultures of display. The source texts, each prefaced by a short introduction with information about the author and guidelines for reading the text, include seminal writings by Vasari, Le Brun, and Baudelaire, among many others, as well as examples of different kinds of literature on art -- a contract, a biography, an academic discourse. And the critical writings for each section of the book offer a variety of perspectives on art and revisions of art history. [via]
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The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italyby Jacqueline Marie MusacchioISBN 0300076290 (0-300-07629-0)
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The Arts of China to Ad 900by William WatsonISBN 0300082843 (0-300-08284-3)
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Battleground Berlin: CIA Vs. KGB in the Cold Warby George Bailey, David E. Murphy, Sergei A. KondrashevISBN 0300078714 (0-300-07871-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Beaufort: The Duke and His Duchess, 1657-1715by Molly McClainISBN 0300084110 (0-300-08411-0)
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The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greeceby Edward SchiappaISBN 0300075901 (0-300-07590-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Belief in God in an Age of Scienceby J. C. PolkinghorneISBN 0300080034 (0-300-08003-4)
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The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstructionby Akhil Reed AmarISBN 0300082770 (0-300-08277-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction'Book summary:"The Bill of Rights stands as the high temple of our constitutional order--America's Parthenon--and yet we lack a clear view of it," Akhil Reed Amar writes in his introduction to The Bill of Rights. "Instead of being studied holistically, the Bill has been broken up ... with each segment examined in isolation." With The Bill of Rights, Amar aims to put the pieces back together and take a longer view of a document few Americans truly understand. Part history of the Bill, part analysis of what the Founding Fathers' intentions really were, this book provides a unique interpretation of the Constitution. It is Amar's hypothesis that, contrary to popular belief, the Bill of Rights was not originally constructed to protect the minority against the majority, but rather to empower popular majorities. It wasn't until 19th-century post-Civil War reconstruction and the introduction of the 14th Amendment that the notion of individual rights took hold. Prior to that, the various amendments to the Constitution that make up the Bill of Rights were more about the structure of government and designed to protect citizens against a self-interested regime. Yet so great has been the impact of the 14th Amendment on modern legal thought that the Bill's original intentions have almost been forgotten.
Through skillful interpretation and solid research, Amar both reconstructs the original thinking of the Founding Fathers and chronicles the radical changes that have occurred since the inclusion of the 14th Amendment in the Bill of Rights. The results make for provocative reading no matter where you stand on the political spectrum. [via]
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British Theatre Since the Warby Dominic ShellardISBN 0300076843 (0-300-07684-3)
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The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Conventby Craig E. HarlineISBN 0300081219 (0-300-08121-9)
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Cezanne to Van Gogh: The Collection of Doctor Gachetby Anne Distel, Susan Alyson SteinISBN 0300085842 (0-300-08584-2)
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The Challenge of the Avant-Gardeby Paul WoodISBN 0300077629 (0-300-07762-9)
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The Changing Status of the Artistby Emma Barker, Kim WoodsISBN 0300077424 (0-300-07742-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Powerby Anatol LievenISBN 0300078811 (0-300-07881-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Computer and the Brainby John Von Neumann, Paul M. Churchland, Patricia Smith ChurchlandISBN 0300084730 (0-300-08473-0)
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Contemporary Cultures of Displayby Emma BarkerISBN 0300077831 (0-300-07783-1)
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Courts, Patrons and Poetsby David MateerISBN 0300082258 (0-300-08225-8)
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The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets at the Heart of the KGB Archivesby Nigel West, Oleg Tsarev, Cleg TsarevISBN 0300078064 (0-300-07806-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World Historyby Peter N. StearnsISBN 0300082290 (0-300-08229-0)
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ivesby James B. SinclairISBN 0300076010 (0-300-07601-0)
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: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 on to deplore the lack of privacy in international negotiations that 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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Dress in the Middle Agesby Perrine Mane, Francoise Piponnier, Caroline BeamishISBN 0300086911 (0-300-08691-1)
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Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britainby Keith WrightsonISBN 0300083912 (0-300-08391-2)
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East Asian Lacquer: The Florence and Herbert Irving Collectionby James C.Y. WattISBN 0300085923 (0-300-08592-3)
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Edgar Degas, Photographerby Malcolm DanielISBN 0300085931 (0-300-08593-1)
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Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamerby Stephen WildmanISBN 0300085826 (0-300-08582-6)
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The Electoral College Primer 2000by Neal R. Peirce, Lawrence D. LongleyISBN 0300080360 (0-300-08036-0)
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Errata: An Examined Lifeby George SteinerISBN 0300080956 (0-300-08095-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in Indiaby Ashutosh VarshneyISBN 0300085303 (0-300-08530-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernismby T. J. ClarkISBN 0300075324 (0-300-07532-4)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism'Book summary:In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly, in extreme terms, to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". [via]
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Fins de Siecle: How Centuries End, 1400-2000by Asa Briggs, Daniel SnowmanISBN 0300082630 (0-300-08263-0)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debtby Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, Jay Lawrence WestbrookISBN 0300079605 (0-300-07960-5)
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From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigrationby Nancy FonerISBN 0300082266 (0-300-08226-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Gender and Artby Gillian PerryISBN 0300077602 (0-300-07760-2)
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Gender Vertigo: American Families in Transitionby Barbara J. RismanISBN 0300080832 (0-300-08083-2)
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Georgia O'Keeffeby Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Phillips Collection, Dallas Museum of Art, Marjorie P. Balge-CrozierISBN 0300079354 (0-300-07935-4)
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Gout: The Patrician Maladyby Roy Porter, G. S. RousseauISBN 0300082746 (0-300-08274-6)
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But disease and metaphor inevitably go hand in hand. This was especially true in the days when gout was mysterious, before Queen Victoria's future physician showed it was caused by uric-acid crystals producing excruciating pain in the extremities. Milton told a friend that if he were only free of gout pain, blindness would be tolerable. The pain felt "as if I was walking on my eyeballs," writes one sufferer. Since one had to be rich to live long enough to get gout, and most victims were males (many of whom drank port laced with gout-intensifying lead), it won a reputation as just punishment for high living, and even a kind of badge of meritocratic honor. It was God's gift to caricaturists like Hogarth, Cruikshank, and Gillray. George Eliot used gout as a symbol for a sick society in Middlemarch. The data fascinates, but the professors don't wear their learning lightly. Still, they do score some good phrases. Explaining that there aren't many portraits of gout sufferers because few victims would pose, they write, "Who wants to be remembered as a septuagenarian freak of Falstaffian glob?" --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republicby John RhodehamelISBN 0300076142 (0-300-07614-2)
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The Gubbio Studiolo and Its Conservationby Olga Raggio, Antoine M. WilmeringISBN 0300085168 (0-300-08516-8)
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Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literatureby Ruth Bernard YeazellISBN 0300083890 (0-300-08389-0)
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Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporariesby Stuart W. PyhrrISBN 0300086180 (0-300-08618-0)
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A History of Gay Literature: The Male Traditionby Gregory WoodsISBN 0300080883 (0-300-08088-3)
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How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence: The Groundbreaking Language Wise Methodby Carmen McGuinnessISBN 0300083203 (0-300-08320-3)
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How to Increase Your Child's Verbal Intelligence: The Language Wise Methodby Carmen McGuinness, Geoffrey McGuinnessISBN 0300083181 (0-300-08318-1)
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In Plato's Caveby Alvin KernanISBN 0300082673 (0-300-08267-3)
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Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Womenby Aileen RibeiroISBN 0300079273 (0-300-07927-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ingres in Fashion: Representations of Dress and Appearance in Ingres's Images of Women'Book summary:It can be argued that haute couture began in the first half of the 19th century; certainly, its vagaries were recorded for posterity by French portrait painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in a wealth of richly detailed studies. For the fashion historian, Ingres's works offer visual insight into the burgeoning consumerism of the time and portray the men and, particularly, the women of society resplendent in their luxurious fabrics, intricate jewelry, and lavish accessories.
Aileen Ribeiro, head of dress at London's Courtauld Institute of Art, has written the exemplary Ingres in Fashion, in which she painstakingly describes Ingres's depiction of fashion as it reflects identity and status in mid-19th-century France. Ingres's dual obsessions--the precise and sumptuous reproductions of modish figures such as his 1853 portrait Josephine-Eleonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Bearn, Princesse de Broglie (a name as voluminous as the costume she wears) and the sensual, almost fantasy-like odalisques of Le Bain Turc (1862)--are amply represented and scrutinized here in more than 150 illustrations. A fascinating social, historical, and fashion document. --Catherine Taylor [via]
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Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917by Orlando Figes, B. I. KolonitskiiISBN 0300081065 (0-300-08106-5)
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An Introduction to Gregorian Chant: Richard L. Crockerby Richard L. CrockerISBN 0300083106 (0-300-08310-6)
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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Cultureby Jaroslav PelikanISBN 0300079877 (0-300-07987-7)
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Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhumanby George SteinerISBN 0300074719 (0-300-07471-9)
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Life in the Treetops: Adventures of a Woman in Field Biologyby Margaret D. Lowman, Robert D. BallardISBN 0300084641 (0-300-08464-1)
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Listening to Classic American Popular Songsby Gary Chapman, Allen Forte, Richard LalliISBN 0300083386 (0-300-08338-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Listening to Classic American Popular Songs'Book summary:In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and many others, along with such lyricists as Ira Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, and Dorothy Fields, produced extraordinary songs of signal importance to the American musical heritage. In this book Allen Forte shares his love of American popular song. He discusses in detail twenty-three songs, ranging from Gershwin's "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924) to Irving Berlin's "Steppin' Out with My Baby" (1947), guiding readers and listeners toward a deeper appreciation of this vital and engaging music.
Forte writes for the general reader, assuming no background other than a familiarity with basic music notation. Each song is discussed individually and includes complete lyrics and simple leadsheet notation. Forte discusses the songs' distinctive musical features and their sophisticated, often touching and witty lyrics. Readers can follow the music while they listen to the accompanying compact disc, which was specially recorded for this volume by baritone Richard Lalli and pianist-arranger Gary Chapman, with Allen Forte, pianist-arranger for "Embraceable You" and "Come Rain or Come Shine".
Learn about these favorite songs and more:
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" "What Is This Thing Called Love?" "Embraceable You" "Autumn in New York" "I've Got You Under My Skin" "The Nearness of You" "That Old Black Magic" "Come Rain or Come Shine [via]
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Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazareby Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Juliet Wilson BareauISBN 0300075103 (0-300-07510-3)
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Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure & Functionby Noble S. ProctorISBN 0300076193 (0-300-07619-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manual of Ornithology: Avian Structure & Function'Book summary:This book - a visual guide to the structure and anatomy of birds - is one of the most heavily illustrated ornithology references ever written. A concise atlas of anatomy, it contains more than 200 specially prepared accurate and clear drawings that include material never illustrated before. The text is as informative as the drawings; written at a level appropriate to undergraduate students and to bird lovers in general, it discusses why birds look and act the way they do. Designed to supplement a basic ornithology textbook, Manual of Ornithology covers systematics and evolution, topography feathers and flight, the skeleton and musculature, and the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory reproductive, sensory, and nervous systems of birds, as well as field techniques for watching and studying birds. Each chapter concludes with a list of key references for the topic covered, with a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the volume. The book will be a guide and reference for every level of bird study - a basic tool for investigation for anyone curious about the fascinating world of birds. [via]
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Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Pastby Jeremy BlackISBN 0300086938 (0-300-08693-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europeby Sydney AngloISBN 0300083521 (0-300-08352-1)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateerby James McDermottISBN 0300083807 (0-300-08380-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guideby Phillippe De Montebello, Kathleen HowardISBN 0300085583 (0-300-08558-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The National Gallery Companion Guideby Erika LangmuirISBN 0300074816 (0-300-07481-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Anotherby Spencer WeartISBN 0300082983 (0-300-08298-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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On Tolerationby Michael WalzerISBN 0300076002 (0-300-07600-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Painting And Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300v1450by Laurence Kanter, Barbara BoehmISBN 0300086598 (0-300-08659-8)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Philip of Spainby Henry Arthur Francis KamenISBN 0300078005 (0-300-07800-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Photographs of Edouard Baldusby Malcolm DanielISBN 0300086768 (0-300-08676-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life With the Pianoby James ParakilasISBN 0300080557 (0-300-08055-7)
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The Planetsby David McNab, James YoungerISBN 0300080441 (0-300-08044-1)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Playing Indianby Philip Joseph DeloriaISBN 0300080670 (0-300-08067-0)
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Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epochby Philip Conisbee, Gary Tinterow, Hans NaefISBN 0300086539 (0-300-08653-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Radical Evil on Trialby Carlos Santiago NinoISBN 0300077289 (0-300-07728-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Radical Evil on Trial'Book summary:Does an emergent democracy have an obligation to prosecute its former dictators for crimes against humanity-for what Arendt and Kant called "radical evil"? What impact will such prosecutions have on the future of democracy? In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to democracy and in shaping the human rights policies of President Raúl Alfonsín after the fall of the military junta in 1983. The centerpiece of Alfonsín's human rights program was the trial held in a federal court in Buenos Aires in 1985, which resulted in the convictions of five of the leading members of the junta that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983. Placing the Argentine experience in the context of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg, Tokyo, and elsewhere, Nino examines the broader questions raised by human rights trials. He considers their political repercussions and their potential for strengthening the new democratic government. He explains why prosecutions for human rights violations should be grounded on a theory of the criminal law that emphasizes the preventive rather than retributive functions of punishment. Nino rejects the obligation to punish perpetrators of radical evil and argues instead for a more forward-looking duty-to safeguard democracy. This, he believes, is what ultimately justified the Argentine trials and should be the focus of any international action. [via]
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Richard Iby John GillinghamISBN 0300079125 (0-300-07912-5)
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Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Artby Kate EzraISBN 0300086636 (0-300-08663-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popesby Eamon DuffyISBN 0300077998 (0-300-07799-8)
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failedby James ScottISBN 0300078153 (0-300-07815-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed'Book summary:James C. Scott's research for this book began with an examination of the tensions between state authorities and various "unstable" individuals throughout history, from hunter-gatherer tribes to Gypsies to the homeless. He soon became fascinated, however, by the recurring patterns of failure and authoritarianism in certain social engineering programs aimed at bringing such people fully into the state's fold. Soviet collectivization, the Maoist Great Leap Forward, the precisely planned city of Brasilia--these and other projects around the world, while deeply ambitious, extracted immeasurable tolls on the people they were designed to help.
One of the most important common factors that Scott found in these schemes is what he refers to as a high modernist ideology. In simplest terms, it is an extremely firm belief that progress can and will make the world a better place. But "scientific" theories about the betterment of life often fail to take into account "the indispensable role of practical knowledge, informal processes, and improvisation in the face of unpredictability" that Scott views as essential to an effective society. What high modernism lacks is metis, a Greek word which Scott translates as "the knowledge that can only come from practical experience." Although metis is closely related to the concept of "mutuality" found in the anarchist writings of, among others, Kropotkin and Bakunin, Scott is careful to emphasize that he is not advocating the abolition of the state or championing a complete reliance on natural "truth." He merely recognizes that some types of states can initiate programs which jeopardize the well-being of all their subjects.
Although the collapse of most socialist governments might lead one to believe that Seeing Like a State is old news, Scott's analysis should prove extremely useful to those considering the effects of global capitalism on local communities. [via]
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Songs of the Women Trouveresby Wendy Pfeffer, Eglal Doss-Quinby, Elizabeth Aubrey, Joan Tasker GrimbertISBN 0300084137 (0-300-08413-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisisby Jerald E. PodairISBN 0300081227 (0-300-08122-7)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleonby Rory MuirISBN 0300082703 (0-300-08270-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Thailand: A Short Historyby David K. WyattISBN 0300084757 (0-300-08475-7)
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Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Storyby John BossyISBN 0300084005 (0-300-08400-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York Cityby Anne-Marie Cantwell, Diana Dizerega WallISBN 0300084153 (0-300-08415-3)
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Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in Americaby Harvey Klehr, John Earl HaynesISBN 0300084625 (0-300-08462-5)
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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century Londonby Lynda NeadISBN 0300085052 (0-300-08505-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London'Book summary:In this fascinating and innovative look at nineteenth-century London, Lynda Nead offers a new account of modernity and metropolitan life. She charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organized city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture. She considers the role visual images played in the creation of a vibrant and diverse urban culture and how new kinds of publics were created for these representations. Shifting the focus of the history of modernity from Paris to London, Nead here argues for a different understanding of gender and public space in a society where women joined the everyday life of city streets and entered the debates concerning morality, spectacle, and adventure.
The book draws on texts and images of many kinds -- including acts of Parliament, literature, newspaper reports, private letters, maps, paintings, advertisements, posters, and banned obscene publications. Taking a highly interdisciplinary approach, Nead explores such intriguing topics as the efforts of urban improvers to move water, air, traffic, goods, and people in the Victorian metropolis; the impact of gas lighting and glass on urban leisure; and the obscenity legislation that emerged in response to new forms of visual mass culture that were perceived as dangerous and pervasive. [via]
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Views of Difference: Different Views of Artby Catherine KingISBN 0300077645 (0-300-07764-5)
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The Waking Dream: Photography's 1st Centuryby Maria Morris HambourgISBN 0300086717 (0-300-08671-7)
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The Waning of the Renaissance, 1550-1640by William J. BouwsmaISBN 0300085370 (0-300-08537-0)
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White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century Southby Martha HodesISBN 0300077505 (0-300-07750-5)
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Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural Americaby Cynthia M. Duncan, Robert ColesISBN 0300084560 (0-300-08456-0)
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