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Christianity

Job A New Translation

Greenstein Edward L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300255249, ISBN: HB: 9780300162349, Yale University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 21x14 cm

The book of Job has often been called the greatest poem ever written. The book, in Edward Greenstein's characterization, is "a Wunderkind, a genius emerging out of the confluence of two literary streams" which "dazzles like Shakespeare with unrivaled...

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History of Art

Monet and Chicago

Groom Gloria, Gopnik Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300250831, Yale University Press, September 2020
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 104 colour and black&white illus.

In 1903, the Art Institute of Chicago became the first American museum to buy a painting by Claude Monet (1840–1926), beginning a tradition of collecting that has inextricably connected this midwestern city to the French Impressionist master. Tracing...

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Culture Studies

Literary Criticism

Vampire A New History

Groom Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.

Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...

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World

Europe

Mussolini and Hitler The Forging of the Fascist Alliance

Goeschel Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300254730, ISBN: HB: 9780300178838, Yale University Press, July 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has und...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Gilbert Sandra M., Gubar Susan, Appignanesi Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...

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History of Art

Classical Body in Romantic Britain

Gilroy-Ware Cora

ISBN: HB: 9781913107062, Yale University Press, April 2020
312 pp., 28.5x17 cm, 109 colour and black&white illus.

For many, the term "neoclassicism" has come to imply discipline, order, restraint, and a certain myopia. Leaving the term behind, this book radically challenges enduring assumptions about the art produced from the late 18th century to the early Victo...

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History of Art

Becoming America Highlights from the Jonathan and Karin Fielding Collection of Folk Art

Glisson James

ISBN: HB: 9780300247565, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 271 colour illus.

"Becoming America" offers a multifaceted view of one of the foremost collections of 18th- and 19th-century American folk and decorative art from the rural Northeast. Essays by leading specialists discuss the culture of furniture workshops, exuberant...

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Women Studies

Europe

Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Griffin Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...

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Political Science

Anti-Pluralism The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

Galston William A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251807, ISBN: HB: 9780300228922, Yale University Press, March 2020
176 pp., 21x14 cm

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political e...

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Photography

Proof Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz

Galassi Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300250077, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 31.7x24.8 cm, 210 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume offers an innovative perspective on the artistic processes of some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For decades before the advent of digital technology, the proof sheet or contact sheet was vital to the...

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