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Architecture

Dubuffet as Architect

Abadie Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300176612, Yale University Press, March 2011
168 pp., 26x20 cm, 160 illus.

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was one of the major painters of the twentieth century, but his architectural achievements have commanded less attention until now. This oversight is all the more surprising in the light of his being awarded The American Ins...

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Political Science

Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy

Abramowitz Alan I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168297, ISBN: HB: 9780300141627, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm, 41 black&white illus.

In this timely book, renowned political scientist Alan Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those w...

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Biography & Memoires

Burghley William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I

Alford Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300170887, Yale University Press, February 2011
432 pp., 23.2x15.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598) was Elizabeth I's closest adviser and, as this revealing and provocative biography shows, the driving force behind the Queen's reign for four decades. Cecil, the steadfast rock of Elizabeth's government, had a...

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Photography

What Can We Believe Where? Photographs of the American West, 1965-2005

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300162479, Yale University Press, October 2010
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 tritone illus.

Since taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the evolving American landscape. Carefully edited by Adams from a remarkable body of work that spans over four decade...

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Earth Sciences

Treasures of the Earth Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future

Ali Saleem H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167825, Yale University Press, September 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Would the world be a better place if human societies were somehow able to curb their desires for material goods? Saleem Ali's pioneering book links human wants and needs by providing a natural history of consumption and materialism with scientific de...

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Christianity

Sin A History

Anderson Gary A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168099, ISBN: HB: 9780300149890, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spannin...

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Europe

Demobbed Coming Home After World War Two

Allport Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300168860, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Snapshots of gaiety and celebration – the street parties, the victory speeches – are how some people today think of Britain in 1945. But the years following the end of World War II were far from a 'golden age' of pride and self-confidence. The countr...

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History of Art

Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting

Aitken Molly Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300142297, Yale University Press, March 2010
352 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 175 black&white illus., 54 colour illus.

The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). Rajput paintings depicted the nobility and court spectacle as well as scenes from Krish...

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Ancient World

Caesar's Druids Story of an Ancient Priesthood

Aldhouse-Green Miranda

ISBN: HB: 9780300124422, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.

Ancient chroniclers, including Julius Caesar himself, made the Druids and their sacred rituals infamous throughout the Western world. But in fact, as Miranda Aldhouse-Green shows in this fascinating book, the Druids' day-to-day lives were far less lu...

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Middle East

Dubai Gilded Cage

Ali Syed

ISBN: PB: 9780300152173, Yale University Press, March 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.

In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure Gulf emirate into a global centre for business, tourism, and luxury living. It is a fascinating case study in light-speed urban development, hyperconsumerism, massive immigration,...

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