Resultaten gefilterd op "Yale University Press"

King Arthur

Nicholas J Higham

• Hardcover | Engels
• A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century Acc... Lees meer

The Winchester

Laura Trevelyan

• Hardcover | Engels
• A fascinating history of the family behind the popular firearm that changed America and the world Arguably the world's most famous firearm, the Winche... Lees meer

Type Tells Tales

Steven Heller, Gail Anderson

• Paperback | Engels
• This exploration of typography as an expressive medium goes far beyond formal qualities, drawing together an exciting range of contemporary design to ... Lees meer

God's Architect

Rosemary Hill

• Hardcover | Engels
• Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was one of Britain's greatest architects, and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural hi... Lees meer

Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940

Barbara Buhler Lynes

• Paperback | Engels
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The Making of Assisi

Donal Cooper, Janet Eileen Robson

• Hardcover | Engels
• For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papac... Lees meer

Dressing the Decades

Emmanuelle Dirix

• Hardcover | Engels
• A visually dazzling tour of 20th-century fashion, spotlighting the leading designers and dominant styles of the past 100 years An authoritative and vi... Lees meer

The Voting Wars

Richard L Hasen

• Paperback | Engels
• The problems uncovered during the debacle of the 2000 presidential election persist, and we can expect far more trouble unless we fix the way we run e... Lees meer

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair

John Bossy

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Nota Bene S
• This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588. The mystery is th... Lees meer

Majesty and Humanity

Alban K Forcione

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the Golden Age of Spanish Theater, an age of highly dramatized coronations and regal spectacles, Alban Forcione has discovered a surprising but per... Lees meer

Women and Men on the Overland Trail

John Mack Faragher

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Nota Bene S
• This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s.... Lees meer

Adonis

Adonis

• Hardcover | The Margellos World Republic of Letters
• Born in Syria in 1930, Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets of the Arabic-speaking world. This volume serves as a comprehensive survey of Adonis... Lees meer

Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision

• Hardcover
• Explores the nature and significance of the artist, William Holman Hunt's vision and its relevance to modern audiences. This book illustrates painting... Lees meer

Coming of Age

William C Agee, Susan C Faxon

• Hardcover | Engels
• A sumptuous catalogue that traces the evolution of a uniquely American aesthetic identity From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progre... Lees meer

Ahlan Wa Sahlan

Mahdi Alosh

• Hardcover | Engels
• The second edition of this widely used text covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and... Lees meer

Subverting Exclusion

Andrea Geiger

• Paperback | Engels | The Lamar Western History
• The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ti... Lees meer

Birders of Africa

Nancy J Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Yale Agrarian Studies
• In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists ... Lees meer

Graphic Design Sources

Kenneth J. Hiebert

• Hardcover
• This text is aimed at helping readers to understand the principles and process of good design, showing how inventive graphic design arises from divers... Lees meer

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 13

Jonathan Edwards

• Hardcover | The Works of Jonathan Edwards Series
• This text begins the publication of Jonathan Edwards's personal theological notebooks, the "Miscellanies." The entries in volume 13 span the early yea... Lees meer

The Gateway Arch

Tracy Campbell

• Hardcover | Icons of America
• The surprising history of the spectacular Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the competing agendas of its supporters, and the mixed results of their ambitious... Lees meer

The Essential Edmund Leach

Edmund Leach

• Hardcover
• This volume contains a selection of Edmund Leach's writings on culture and human nature. It reflects the changing focus of Leach's academic interests,... Lees meer

The Good, the True, and the Beautiful

Jean-Pierre Changeux

• Hardcover | Engels | Editions Odile Jacob Book
• In this fascinating and bold discussion, a renowned neurobiologist serves as guide to the most complex physical object in the living world: the human ... Lees meer

Infinite Jest

Constance C. McPhee, Nadine M. Orenstein

• Hardcover | Metropolitan Museum of Art
• An entertaining and informative book-the first to feature significant caricatures and satirical works dating from 1500 to the present, selected from t... Lees meer

Sublimation

Hans W Loewald

• Paperback | Engels
• The eminent psychoanalyst Hans W. Loewald here offers a provocative new examination of sublimation. Dr. Loewald's inquiry leads him to reexamine and r... Lees meer