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Fashion

Dressing Up Fashion Week NYC

Friedlander Lee, Ryan Kathy

ISBN: HB: 9780300179859, Yale University Press, May 2015
84 pp., 33x28 cm, 59 duotone illus.

Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander's lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and c...

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World

Allure of the Archives

Farge Arlette, Scott-Railton Thomas, Zemon Davis Natalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300198935, Yale University Press, April 2015
150 pp., 21x14 cm

Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portraya...

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Contemporary Art

Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008

Frank Robin Jaffee, Denson Charles, Glick Josh, Kasson John F., Musser Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300189902, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 77 black&white illus.

Called "America's playground", Coney Island is a world-famous resort and national cultural symbol that has inspired music, literature, and films. This groundbreaking book is the first to look at the site's enduring status as inspiration for artists t...

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History of Art

Buddhist Art of Myanmar

Fraser-Lu Sylvia, Stadtner Donald M., Chain U Tun Aung, Leider Jacques, Pranke Patrick, Brown Robert, Tan Heidi, Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300209457, Yale University Press, March 2015
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collection...

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Biography & Memoires

Silence Was Salvation Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

Frierson Cathy A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179453, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist Era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the...

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Political Science

Insider's Guide to the U.N.

Fasulo Linda

ISBN: PB: 9780300203653, Yale University Press, February 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 illus.

Termed "the indispensable source on the United Nations" by Joseph S. Nye of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this book is now fully revised and updated to include new material on fragile states, R2P (responsibility to protect), recent Security...

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History of Art

Art of the American West The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum

Fry Laura F., Hassrick Peter H., Stevens Scott Manning, Stebich Stephanie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207606, Yale University Press, November 2014
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

This handsome book displays an extraordinary breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present, including over 140 artists in some 350 beautiful colour reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American artists including Frede...

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History of Art

Flora Illustrata Great Works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden

Fraser Susan M., Sellers Vanessa Bezemer

ISBN: HB: 9780300196627, Yale University Press, October 2014
288 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 279 colour and black&white illus.

The renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden counts among its holdings many of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical and horticultural works ever created. More than eight centuries of knowledge, from the twelfth centu...

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History of Art

Another Light Jacques-Louis David to Thomas Demand

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300208177, Yale University Press, September 2014
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour, 110 black&white illus.

In this richly illustrated book Michael Fried – one of the most esteemed and influential art critics and art historians working today – has gathered eight major essays written between 1993 and 2013, on topics ranging from Jacques-Louis David, Theodor...

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Europe

Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

Firsov Fridrikh Igorevich, Klehr Harvey, Haynes John Earl

ISBN: HB: 9780300198225, Yale University Press, July 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of...

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