Why the Museum Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300276855,
ISBN: HB: 9780300259353,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
A powerful reflection on the universal art museum, considering the values critical to its history and anticipating its evolving place in our cultural future.
Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in sha...
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£12.99
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£16.99
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Biographical Dictionary of English Architecture, 1540-1640
ISBN: HB: 9781913107222,
Yale University Press,
October 2021
372 pp., 23,2x15,6 cm
372 pp., 23,2x15,6 cm
This long-awaited work of scholarship provides a comprehensive dictionary of everyone of importance in the creation of English architecture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. With characteristically deft prose, Mark Girouard draws on a lifetime of...
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£40.00
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New Yale Book of Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9780300205978,
Yale University Press,
October 2021
1168 pp., 23,5x17,8 cm, 96 black&white illus.
1168 pp., 23,5x17,8 cm, 96 black&white illus.
Updated to include more than a thousand new quotations, this reader-friendly volume contains over twelve thousand famous quotations, arranged alphabetically by author and sourced from literature, history, popular culture, sports, digital culture, sci...
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£40.00
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Revise
The Scholar-Writer's Essential Guide to Tweaking, Editing, and Perfecting Your Manuscript
ISBN: HB: 9780300243673,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
368 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
368 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
Writing and revision are two different skills. Many scholar-writers have learned something about how to write, but fewer know how to read and revise their own writing, spot editorial issues, and transform a draft from passable to great. Drawing on be...
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£19.99
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Artful History
A Practical Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300239904,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm
Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn't it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just...
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£30.00
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How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780300217438,
Yale University Press,
February 2019
184 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
184 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences need money to do research. This book shows them how to get it. In this accessible volume, Raphael Folsom shares proven strategies in a series of short, witty chapters. It features tips on how graduate st...
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£22.50
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Writing Successful Science Proposals
Third Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300226706,
Yale University Press,
September 2018
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 13 black&white illus.
288 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 13 black&white illus.
An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing This fully revised edition of the authoritative guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any researcher embarking on a grant or thesis application....
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£18.99
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Russian-English Dictionary of Idioms
ISBN: HB: 9780300162271,
Yale University Press,
February 2014
1376 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
1376 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the ninet...
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£120.00
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Future of History
ISBN: PB: 9780300181692,
Yale University Press,
May 2012
224 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
224 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
For more than sixty years, John Lukacs has been writing, teaching, and reading about the past. In this inspired volume, he turns his attention to the future. Throughout "The Future of History", Lukacs reflects on his discipline, eloquently arguing th...
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£19.00
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Encyclopedia of New York City
Second Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300114652,
Yale University Press,
January 2011
1600 pp., 27,7x21,8 cm, 752 black&white illus.
1600 pp., 27,7x21,8 cm, 752 black&white illus.
Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of "The Encyclopedia of New York City" was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its f...
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£47.50
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