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About Architecture
An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings
About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives—from how our towns...
William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution
Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges’s (1827–1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and...
Henry III
Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1259-1272
The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III’s rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king’s death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his...
Less Heat, More Light
A Guided Tour of Weather, Climate, and Climate Change
A straightforward and fact-based exploration of how weather happens, how it relates to climate, and how science answers major questions about Earth as a system Climate change is one of the most hotly contested...
The Syriac World
In Search of a Forgotten Christianity
A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the present Often referred to as the third main language of Christianity after Latin and Greek,...
Revolutionary Things
Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals “By excavating the power of material objects and...
Three Powers in Heaven
The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways
A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions How, when, and why did Christianity and Judaism become separate religions? This book...
Pictural Abstraction 1980-Today
The Tangle of Life
The Trees of the Cross
Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany
A revelatory study exploring wood’s many material, ecological, and symbolic meanings in the religious art of medieval Germany In late medieval Germany, wood was a material laden with significance. It was an...
American Art
Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery
A tour through the Yale University Art Gallery’s holdings of American art, one of the most exceptional museum collections of its kind This volume presents an engaging selection of highlights and introduces readers...