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Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Friedlander Saul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...

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Music

General

Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...

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Europe

Music

Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

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Military

Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...

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Christianity

Meister Eckhart Philosopher of Christianity

Flasch Kurt, Schindel Anne, Vanides Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300204865, Yale University Press, October 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and posthum...

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Photography

Children The Human Clay

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300215199, Yale University Press, September 2015
214 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 203 duotone illus.

In "Children", more than 300 photographs are presented in two sections. The first features images of children that the artist has known: being bathed or fed, laughing or crying with family members, posing with pets or mugging for the camera. The seco...

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Photography

Portraits The Human Clay

Friedlander Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300215205, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 24.5x28 cm, 234 duotone illus.

American photographer Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) has had an expansive career, photographing his subjects-from family and friends to political figures and celebrities-in their everyday environments, while simultaneously changing the very landscape of h...

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Photography

Germaine Krull

Frizot Michel

ISBN: PB: 9780300215151, Yale University Press, July 2015
265 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 200 duotone illus.

Germaine Krull (1897-1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During...

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America

Captain and "the Cannibal" An Epic Story of Exploration, Kidnapping, and the Broadway Stage

Fairhead James

ISBN: HB: 9780300198775, Yale University Press, May 2015
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Sailing the uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea. The contact quickly turned violent, fatal cannons were fired, and Mo...

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History of Art

Ink and Gold Art of the Kano

Fischer Felice, Kinoshita Kyoko

ISBN: HB: 9780300210491, Yale University Press, May 2015
350 pp., 25.4x29.9 cm, 380 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The Kano lineage of painters-the most important in Japan-was established in the late 15th century by Kano Masanobu (1434-1530) and continued for more than 400 years, until the early 20th century. Originally limited to successive generations of the Ka...

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