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Fashion

Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style

Calahan April, Cannell Karen Trivette, Sui Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300212266, Yale University Press, November 2015
440 pp., 33x28 cm, 225 colour illus.

Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...

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History of Art

Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection

Cameron Ainsley, Mason Darielle

ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

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Music

Art of Music

Coleman Patrick, Shaw-Miller Simon, Leppert Richard, Benito Sandra, Brown Michael, Grebl James, Plotek Ariel, Rodrigues Gemma, Sardar Marika, Yu Yu Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300215472, Yale University Press, October 2015
318 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 280 colour illus.

"The Art of Music" is a handsomely illustrated and rich interdisciplinary look at the mutual influence between music and the visual arts across cultures and eras. The book sheds new light on more familiar artists at the intersection of the visual and...

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Biography & Memoires

Wilfred Owen

Cuthbertson Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300216158, ISBN: HB: 9780300153002, Yale University Press, October 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at the age of 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's ration...

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Political Science

Wildcat Currency How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy

Castronova Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300212495, ISBN: HB: 9780300186130, Yale University Press, August 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federa...

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Design

Decorative Arts

Arts & Crafts Stained Glass

Cormack Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300209709, Yale University Press, August 2015
336 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

Beautifully illustrated and based on more than three decades of research, "Arts & Crafts Stained Glass" is the first study of how the late-19th-century Arts and Crafts Movement transformed the aesthetics and production of stained glass in Britain and...

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French

French in Action, Textbook, Part 2 A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method

Capretz Pierre, Abetti Beatrice, Germain Marie-Odile, Lydgate Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300176117, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illus.

Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...

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Contemporary Art

Traces of Survival Drawings of Refugees in Iraq Selected by Ai Weiwei

Chalabi Tamara, Van Cauteren Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300218206, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2015
152 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 408 colour illus.

This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were cre...

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America

Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

Caute David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212327, ISBN: HB: 9780300192094, Yale University Press, June 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of...

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Jewish Studies

World Without Jews Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Confino Alon

ISBN: PB: 9780300212518, ISBN: HB: 9780300188547, Yale University Press, June 2015
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this grippi...

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