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Biography & Memoires

Martin Luther Visionary Reformer

Hendrix Scott H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226379, Yale University Press, October 2016
368 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.

A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther. The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious...

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Ancient World

Lost World of Byzantium

Harris Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300223538, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emp...

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Biography & Memoires

My Dear Li Correspondence, 1937-1946

Heisenberg Werner, Heisenberg Elisabeth, Hirsch-Heisenberg Anna Maria, Heisenberg Irene

ISBN: HB: 9780300196931, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Personal letters reveal the quandary of a prominent German physicist during the Nazi years and the strength he shared with his loving wife Nobel Prize-winning physicist Werner Heisenberg lived far from his wife, Elisabeth, during most of the Second W...

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History of Art

Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Anthropology

Sleep in Early Modern England

Handley Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9780300220391, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is...

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Political Science

Plutocrats United Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223545, ISBN: HB: 9780300212457, Yale University Press, August 2016
256 pp., 23.3x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform. Campaign financing is one of today's most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right...

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Europe

Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Biography & Memoires

JFK and LBJ The Last Two Great Presidents

Hodgson Godfrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300219760, Yale University Press, July 2016
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

As a young White House correspondent and Washington reporter during the Kennedy and Johnson years, Godfrey Hodgson covered two presidents who could hardly have been more different. John Kennedy's wit and dashing style, his war-hero status, and his Iv...

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General

Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality

Holton M. Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...

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Design

Design The Invention of Desire

Helfand Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300205091, Yale University Press, June 2016
224 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 12 colour illus.

Design has always prided itself on being relevant to the world it serves, but interest in design was once limited to a small community of design professionals. Today, books on "design thinking" are best sellers, and computer and Web-based tools have...

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