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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Military

World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Photography

JFK A Photographic Memoir

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300191080, Yale University Press, September 2013
60 pp., 21.6x23.5 cm, 49 tritone illus.

The public outpouring of support for newly elected President John F. Kennedy in 1960 was exceeded in scope and magnitude by the manifestations of grief and mourning after his assassination in 1963. These responses had an unusually strong visual compo...

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History of Art

Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes From Estridentismo to 30-30!

Flores Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780300184488, Yale University Press, July 2013
376 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 48 colour images, 122 black&white illus.

In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898-1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). It is inspired by Mexico's rapid modernization following the Mexican Revolu...

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Health & Wellbeing

Fighting Cancer with Knowledge and Hope A Guide for Patients, Families, and Health Care Providers

Frank Richard C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190618, Yale University Press, July 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, a compassionate and knowledgeable physician explains what cancer is,...

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Biography & Memoires

Totally Unofficial The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Frieze Donna-Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300186963, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "geno...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Alice Aycock Drawings

Fineberg Jonathan, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: PB: 9780300191103, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 102 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock...

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Biography & Memoires

Gustav Mahler

Fischer Jens Malte, Spencer Stewart

ISBN: PB: 9780300194111, Yale University Press, April 2013
766 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

A bestseller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's "Gustav Mahler" has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources – some unavailable to previous biographers – and sets in narrative cont...

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History

Physics

Elementary Particles

Fermi Enrico, Appelquist Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Full Spectrum Prints from the Brandywine Workshop

Fine Ruth E., Langdale Shelley R., Edmunds Allan L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185485, Yale University Press, October 2012
76 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Since its founding in 1972, the Brandywine Workshop has become an internationally recognized centre for printmaking and a vital part of the Philadelphia community. In 2009 the workshop donated one hundred prints to the Philadelphia Museum of Art in m...

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