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Philosophy

On Evil

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300171259, Yale University Press, April 2011
192 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

For many enlightened, liberal-minded thinkers today, and for most on the political left, evil is an outmoded concept. It smacks too much of absolute judgements and metaphysical certainties to suit the modern age. In this witty, accessible study, the...

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Fiction

Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories

Edlow Jonathan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171266, Yale University Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow shows the doct...

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Contemporary Art

Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art

Elliott David

ISBN: PB: 9780300166903, Yale University Press, March 2011
136 pp., 26.6x23 cm, 3 black&white illus., 89 colour illus.

In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many Westerners are familiar with the...

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Literary Criticism

Love and the Law in Cervantes

Echevarria Gonzalez Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300177848, Yale University Press, February 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm

The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the work...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode

Egerton Judy

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9781857095104, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2011
80 pp., 19.6x18.4 cm, 11 black&white illus., 34 colour illus.

Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still abso...

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Christianity

Reason, Faith and Revolution Reflections on the God Debate

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300164534, Yale University Press, April 2010
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical "Reason, Faith, and Revolution" is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagle...

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Law

Reviving Self-Governance in the Workplace Employee Rights and Representation in an Era of Self-Regulation

Estlund Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9780300124507, Yale University Press, February 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original book seeks to shape current trends toward employer self-regulation into a new paradigm of workplace governance in which workers participate. The decline of collective bargaining and the parallel rise of employment law have left workers...

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Design

Buriki Japanese Tin Toys from the Golden Age of the American Automobile: The Yoku Tanaka Collection

Earle Joe

ISBN: PB: 9780300151572, Yale University Press, June 2009
96 pp., 23.2x20.3 cm, 70 colour illus.

Tin toys have been made in Japan for more than 100 years, but during World War II their production – and international sales – ended. Almost as soon as the war was over, ingenious manufacturers began to make model Jeeps out of recycled food cans. Wit...

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Philosophy

Provisional Politics Kantian Arguments in Policy Context

Ellis Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300125221, Yale University Press, December 2008
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

If we are to vindicate moral reasoning in politics, Elisabeth Ellis argues in this original and provocative work, we must focus on the conditions of political discourse rather than the contents of any particular ethical system. Written in an engaging...

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Contemporary Art

560 Broadway A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

Eshoo Amy, Cartwright Derrick R., Cuno James, Finch Elizabeth, Helfenstein Josef, Lowry Glenn D., Mickenberg David, Philbin Ann, Powell Earl A., Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300135398, Yale University Press, February 2008
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

"560 Broadway" is the first book to explore one of this country's most remarkable private collections of modern and contemporary American drawings. Featuring such artists as Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, Jasper Johns, and Agnes Martin, the collection of W...

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