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Political Science

For-Profit Democracy Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America

Ashwood Loka

ISBN: HB: 9780300215359, Yale University Press, June 2018
328 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States? This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government together dispossess rural people of their prosperity, and even their property. Based on four years of fi...

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Law

Soul of the First Amendment Why Freedom of Speech Matters

Abrams Floyd

ISBN: PB: 9780300234206, ISBN: HB: 9780300190885, Yale University Press, May 2018
176 pp., 21x14 cm

A lively and controversial overview by the nation's most celebrated First Amendment lawyer of the unique protections for freedom of speech in America. The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protecte...

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History of Art

Cult of the Machine Precisionism and American Art

Acker Emma, Brock Charles, Cox Julian, Palmor Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9780300234022, Yale University Press, April 2018
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.

Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring more than 1...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Astrid Lindgren The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

Andersen Jens, Waight Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300226102, Yale University Press, April 2018
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgre...

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Europe

Portrait of a Woman in Silk Hidden Histories of the British Atlantic World

Anishanslin Zara

ISBN: PB: 9780300234237, Yale University Press, March 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 43 black&white illus.

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarshi...

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Islam

Philosophy

Critique of Religious Discourse

Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid, Kersten Carool, Wright Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...

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Poetry

Concerto Al-Quds

Adonis

ISBN: HB: 9780300197648, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm

At the age of eighty-six, Adonis, a Syrian poet, critic, essayist, and devoted secularist, has come out of retirement to pen an extended, innovative poem on Jerusalem/Al-Quds. It is a hymn to a troubled city embattled by the conflicting demands of Je...

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Decorative Arts

Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford

Aquin Stephane, Hankins Evelyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230772, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 27.9x17.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book documents "Pickett's Charge", an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extend nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hi...

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Military

Civil Wars A History in Ideas

Armitage David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234244, Yale University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor o...

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