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Biochemistry

Science of Human Perfection Heredity, Health, and Human Improvement in American Biomedicine

Comfort Nathaniel C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198195, ISBN: HB: 9780300169911, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a...

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History of Art

Religious Poverty, Visual Riches Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries

Cannon Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300187656, Yale University Press, December 2013
368 pp., 28x23 cm, 80 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were vowed to a life of religious poverty. Yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners – Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and Simone Martini...

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Philosophy

Warburg Years (1919-1933) Essays on Language, Art, Myth, and Technology

Cassirer Ernst

ISBN: HB: 9780300108194, Yale University Press, December 2013
384 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was one of the leading proponents of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence – the fact that our...

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Literary Criticism

Diasporas of the Mind Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

Cheyette Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9780300093186, Yale University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers – some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal – to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after...

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Performing Arts

Beautiful Province

Coo Clarence, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300195460, Yale University Press, December 2013
144 pp., 21x14 cm

A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing...

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Photography

Itinerant Languages of Photography

Cadava Eduardo L., Nouzeilles Gabriela, Fontcuberta Joan, Gonzalez Valeria, Keenan Thomas, Lissovsky Mauricio, Mraz John

ISBN: HB: 9780300174366, Yale University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to cir...

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Biography & Memoires

Jewish Studies

Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade

Cohen Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History

Carruthers Annette

ISBN: HB: 9780300195767, Yale University Press, October 2013
468 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among...

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Fashion

Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971

Clark Judith, de la Haye Amy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...

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Contemporary Art

Conspiracy of Images Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War

Curley John J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300188431, Yale University Press, October 2013
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.

In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the dang...

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