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Nature

Forests Adrift Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees

Canham Charles D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238297, Yale University Press, April 2020
240 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 23 black&white illus.

The northeastern United States is one of the most densely forested regions in the country, yet its history of growth, destruction, and renewal are for the most part poorly understood – even by specialists. In this engaging look at both the impermanen...

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Islam

Muslims and Citizens Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution

Coller Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780300243369, Yale University Press, April 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe's most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed...

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Poetry

Little Histories

Little History of Poetry

Carey John

ISBN: HB: 9780300232226, Yale University Press, March 2020
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...

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Business & Economics

Economists

Cook Mariana, Solow Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300249972, Yale University Press, February 2020
200 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists – from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field – this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by acc...

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Decorative Arts

Bernard Leach Life and Work

Cooper Emmanuel

ISBN: PB: 9781913107116, Yale University Press, February 2020
440 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 26 colour illus., 79 black&white illus.

Widely recognized as the father of studio pottery, Bernard Leach (1887-1979) played a pioneering role in creating an identity for artist potters in Britain and around the world. Born in the East (Hong Kong) and educated in the West (England), through...

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Contemporary Art

Carole Solvay To Move Without Noise

Chang Alain, Prum Richard, Turine Roger Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300246551, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
208 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 115 illus.

This is the first book to explore the oeuvre of contemporary Belgian sculptor Carole Solvay (b. 1954). Using primarily feathers and thin wire, Solvay has over the past 25 years created ethereally beautiful sculptures that seem to defy gravity. This p...

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Law

Software Rights How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Con Diaz Gerardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300228397, Yale University Press, January 2020
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Diaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and...

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Physics

Physics and Dance

Coates Emily, Demers Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248371, ISBN: HB: 9780300195835, Yale University Press, November 2019
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 62 black&white illus.

From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides...

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History of Art

Young Bomberg and the Old Masters

Cork Richard

ISBN: PB: 9781857096477, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
64 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 65 colour and black&white illus.

The British painter David Bomberg (1890-1957) was among the most precociously talented artists of his generation, and the influence of his legacy continues to be felt. This catalogue is the first to explore Bomberg's early work in relation to the col...

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History of Art

Nicolaes Maes Dutch Master of the Golden Age

Cornelis Bart, van Suchtelen Ariane

ISBN: PB: 9781857096545, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2019
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634–1693). One of Rembrandt's most talented students, Maes began by painting biblical scenes in the style of his famous teacher. He later produced extraordinary genr...

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