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Archaeology & Paleontology

Riddle of the Feathered Dragons Hidden Birds of China

Feduccia Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205756, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 242 black&white illus.

Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living dinosaur. But is this conclusion beyond dispute?...

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Fiction

La Vida Doble A Novel

Fontaine Talavera Arturo, McDowell Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205763, ISBN: HB: 9780300176698, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, "La Vida Doble" is the story of Lorena, a leftist militant who arrives at a merciless turning point when every choice she confronts is impossible. Captured by agents of the Chilean repression, wi...

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Ecology

Hemlock A Forest Giant on the Edge

Foster David R., D'Amato Anthony, Baiser Benjamin, Ellison Aaron M., Foster David, Orwig David, Oswald Wyatt, Plotkin Audrey Barker, Thompson Jonathan, Long Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300179385, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A "foundation...

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Nature

Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower Artists' Books and the Natural World

Fairman Elisabeth R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300204247, Yale University Press, May 2014
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 250 colour, black&white illus.

Highlighting an enduring interest in natural history from the 16th century to the present, this gorgeous book explores depictions of the natural world, from centuries-old manuscripts to contemporary artists' books. It examines the scientific pursuits...

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Architecture

Pelican History of Art

Romanesque Architecture

Fernie Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300203547, Yale University Press, May 2014
400 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 120 colour images, 269 black&white illus.

In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating chronological survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise to the style. It is known for its mass...

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Photography

Family in the Picture, 1958-2013

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300204834, Yale University Press, May 2014
378 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 369 tritone illus.

This book is designed and conceived to complement. In the "Picture", his 2011 volume of self-portraits, Lee Friedlander's "Family in the Picture" is the family album of one of the most restless and inventive figures in the history of photography. The...

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Photography

Music

Playing for the Benefit of the Band New Orleans Music Culture

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300204407, Yale University Press, April 2014
207 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 202 tritone illus.

Lee Friedlander first visited the birthplace of jazz in 1957 and immediately set about photographing the aging pioneers of the art form. His love of the music and the people of New Orleans drew him back to the city, and the relationships he formed ov...

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Landscape Architecture

Art of the Louvre's Tuileries Garden

Fonkenell Guillaume, Corey Laura D., Deitz Paula, Guenther Bruce, Kennel Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300197372, Yale University Press, December 2013
160 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.

The Tuileries Garden is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world's most iconic public art spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape architect Andre Le Notre, it served the now-destroyed Tuileries Palace. It was opened to the public in 16...

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Fashion

Film Studies

Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film

Faiers Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...

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General

America

Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929

Fogelson Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...

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