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First Responders Inside the U.S. Strategy for Fighting the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis

Bernanke Ben S., Geithner Timothy F., Paulson Henry M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300244441, Yale University Press, March 2020
624 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 85 black&white illus.

In 2008, the world's financial system stood on the brink of disaster. The United States faced an unprecedented crisis when the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, setting off a global panic. Faced with the prospect of a new Great Depression, t...

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Photography

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Bussard Katherine A., Gresh Kristen

ISBN: HB: 9780300250886, Yale University Press, March 2020
336 pp., 31.7x22.2 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throug...

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Christianity

Having the Spirit of Christ Spirit Possession and Exorcism in the Early Christ Groups

Bazzana Giovanni B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300245622, Yale University Press, February 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The earliest Christian writings are filled with stories of possession and exorcism, which were crucial for the activity of the historical Jesus and for the practice of his earliest followers. Possession, besides being a harmful event that should be e...

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Military

Military Strategy A Global History

Black Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300217186, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Strategy has existed as long as there has been organised conflict. In this new account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the...

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Psychology

General

Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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Decorative Arts

Arms and Armor Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Breiding Dirk H.

ISBN: HB: 9780876332924, Yale University Press, February 2020
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 415 colour illus.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's holdings of arms and armor are among the finest of their kind in the world. Presenting nearly 100 masterpieces from the collection, this lavishly illustrated volume includes complete armors and armor elements, swords,...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C.

Burger Richard L., Salazar Lucy C., Seki Yuji

ISBN: PB: 9780913516300, Yale University Press, February 2020
192 pp., 24.7x17.1 cm, 121 black&white illus.

This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early...

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History of Art

Buddhism

How to Read Buddhist Art

Behrendt Kurt A.

ISBN: PB: 9781588396730, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour illus.

For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. "How to Read Buddhist Art" introduces this compl...

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Poetry

Beginning with O

Broumas Olga, Kunitz Stanley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246315, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm

This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Greek myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive sense of dramatic confli...

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Fashion

In Pursuit of Fashion The Sandy Schreier Collection

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396969, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2019
204 pp., 33x23.5 cm, 174 colour illus.

This handsome volume explores the modern discipline of fashion collecting, presenting remarkable works from one of the greatest private collection of 20th-century costume. This group of clothing and accessories, assembled over several decades by Sand...

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