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Women Studies

Dante and the Early Astronomer Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens

Daugherty Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300239898, Yale University Press, June 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as ins...

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Political Science

Social Democracy in the Making Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300236026, Yale University Press, June 2019
600 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism – a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citiz...

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America

Blueprint for War FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

Dunn Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300244342, ISBN: HB: 9780300203530, Yale University Press, June 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus. in 8-pg insert

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under t...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Why Liberalism Failed

Deneen Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...

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Literary Criticism

Delicate Aggression Savagery and Survival in the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Dowling David O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215847, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

As the world's preeminent creative writing program, the Iowa Writers' Workshop has produced an astonishing number of distinguished writers and poets since its establishment in 1936. Its alumni and faculty include twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners,...

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Drinks

Cultural Studies

Natural History of Beer

DeSalle Rob, Tattersall Ian, Wynne Patricia J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233674, Yale University Press, April 2019
256 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record and traverse the globe for eng...

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Photography

Music

Play It Loud Instruments of Rock & Roll

Dobney Jayson, Inciardi Craig, DeCurtis Anthony, DiPerna Alan, Fricke David, George-Warren Holly, Hill Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781588396662, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2019
236 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 127 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.

Play It Loud celebrates the musical instruments that gave rock and roll its signature sound – from Louis Jordan's alto saxophone and John Lennon's Rickenbacker to the drum set owned by Metallica's Lars Ulrich, Lady Gaga's keytar, and beyond. Seven en...

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America

Breaking White Supremacy Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300244335, Yale University Press, April 2019
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profoun...

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Literary Criticism

Construction of a National Vernacular Literature in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Edwin M. Duval Yale French Studies, Number 134

DeVos Jessica, Hayes Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300235999, Yale University Press, March 2019
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

French literature underwent radical changes in the sixteenth century. Edwin (Ned) M. Duval's scholarship focuses on teasing out hidden structures and symmetries in French Renaissance poetry and prose. In honor of Duval's literary "sleuthing", the con...

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Architecture

From Stone to Paper Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire

Dadlani Chanchal B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233179, Yale University Press, February 2019
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 97 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

By the 18th century, the Mughal Empire was well beyond its so-called golden age. Its control of the Indian subcontinent was increasingly threatened by regional Indian states, as well as by the encroaching British Empire. In response to a rapidly chan...

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