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Buddhism

Secular Buddhism Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300234251, Yale University Press, March 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism. As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation....

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Anthropology

Indigenous Visions Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas

Blackhawk Ned, Wilner Isaiah Lorado

ISBN: PB: 9780300196511, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's "The Mind of Primitive Man" challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on re...

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America

Travel

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

Bockstoce John R., Barr William

ISBN: HB: 9780300221794, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy,...

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Psychology

Craving Mind From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love - Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

Brewer Judson

ISBN: PB: 9780300234367, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in the study of mindfulness explains why addictions are so tenacious and how we can learn to conquer them. We are all vulnerable to addiction. Whether it's a compulsion to constantly check social media, binge eat...

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America

Empire in Retreat The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

Bulmer-Thomas Victor

ISBN: HB: 9780300210002, Yale University Press, March 2018
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to th...

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History of Art

Thomas Cole's Journey Atlantic Crossings

Barringer Tim, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Riopelle Christopher, Vittoria Shannon

ISBN: HB: 9781588396402, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 254 colour and black&white illus.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W....

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Popular Science

Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

Bercovici David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230505, Yale University Press, February 2018
152 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to...

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Music

Notes from the Pianist's Bench

Berman Boris

ISBN: PB: 9780300221527, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 177 black&white illus.

In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedago...

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History

Artisanal Enlightenment Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

Bertucci Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300227413, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists,...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 38

Billinge Rachel, Dunkerton Jill, Ede Minna Moore, Franklin Jonathan, Howard Helen, Keith Larry, Peggie David, Spring Marika, Wieseman Marjorie E., Wivel Matthias

ISBN: PB: 9781857096231, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
112 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.

This latest volume of the National Gallery's "Technical Bulletin" series features a range of studies, reflecting its commitment to the scientific research and conservation of paintings in its care. Articles include the recent conservation of Rosso Fi...

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