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James Hall, a former art critic of the Guardian, was awarded the first Bernard Denvir Prize for an outstanding young critic.

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Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
Written by James Hall

Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Pimlico | Art - History
978-0-7126-6789-0 (0-7126-6789-X)

January 23, 2006 | $42.50



This is a bold and absorbing study of the body language of Michelangelo’s figures and his preoccupation with the male nude. The study will shed a dramatic new light on many of the artist’s most familiar works, including the statue of David.

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Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body
Written by James Hall

Hardcover | 336 pages | Chatto & Windus | Art - History
978-0-7011-7270-1 (0-7011-7270-3)

February 22, 2005 | $65.00



If we want to understand our own culture, in which artists, film-makers and writers are fixated on the body, we need to understand Michelangelo who was the first artist to focus on the human body.

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The World As Sculpture
Written by James Hall

Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Pimlico | Art - Sculpture; Art - History
978-0-7126-6442-4 (0-7126-6442-4)

June 27, 2000 | $37.95



This vivid, highly entertaining guide, illustrated throughout, packed with fascinating characters, illuminating examples and heated arguments, seeks to understand the growing importance of sculpture as art and is essential reading for anyone interested in the arts.

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The World As Sculpture
Written by James Hall

Hardcover | pages | Chatto & Windus | Art
978-0-7011-6882-7 (0-7011-6882-X)

August 3, 1999 | $65.00



This vivid, highly entertaining guide, illustrated throughout, packed with fascinating characters, illuminating examples and heated arguments, seeks to understand the growing importance of sculpture as art and is essential reading for anyone interested in the arts.


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Red Sky At Night
Written by James Hall

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-61392-3 (0-440-61392-2)

June 8, 1998 | $33.00

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Red Sky At Night
Written by James Hall

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780440613923
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Buzz Cut
Written by James Hall

Paperback | 464 pages | Dell | Fiction - Literary
978-0-440-21782-4 (0-440-21782-2)

March 10, 1997 | $9.99

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Buzz Cut
Written by James Hall

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440217824
Our Price: $9.99
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A brutal hijacker,

A missing heiress,

And a luxury liner racing toward disaster...

In the quiet shallows of the Florida Keys, Thorn has made a home, tying fishing flies and trying to forget the violence of his past. Now Key Largo is his world. He fishes it, breathes it, makes love in it...


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Gone Wild
Written by James Hall

Paperback | 464 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-21781-7 (0-440-21781-4)

January 1, 1996 | $10.99

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Gone Wild
Written by James Hall

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440217817
Our Price: $10.99
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From James W. Hall, the highly acclaimed best-selling author of Hard Aground, Mean High Tide, and Bones Of Coral, comes a stunning and superbly rendered new thriller in which the most deadly animals in the jungle are the ones that kill for money. With one poacher's bullet, a young woman's life...


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Mean High Tide
Written by James Hall

Paperback | 448 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-21355-0 (0-440-21355-X)

January 1, 1995 | $10.99

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Mean High Tide
Written by James Hall

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440213550
Our Price: $10.99
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Beneath the still blue waters off  Key Largo a woman dives into a dazzling array of  color. But behind the shimmering schools of fish,  somewhere in the shadows of the reef, a death trap  awaits. In minutes one life will be expertly,  brutally taken, and another plunged into a mean season  of fury, obsession, and revenge... His...


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Hard Aground
Written by James Hall

Paperback | 462 pages | Dell | Fiction
978-0-440-21357-4 (0-440-21357-6)

January 1, 1994 | $10.99

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Hard Aground
Written by James Hall

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780440213574
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450 years ago a treasure  ship went down. In Miami, the heat hasn't let up  yet...Hap Tyler tailboards on Biscayne bay, hears  voices, seduces young women, and lives on the edge  of history in his family's old-money mansion amid  Miami's pastel glitz. But while Hap stumbles around  in the shadow of his more successful older  brother, Daniel, a...


              
              



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