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Political Science

Mere Machine The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy

Harvey Anna L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205770, ISBN: HB: 9780300171112, Yale University Press, August 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches, and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts, or myths? In this...

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Literary Criticism

Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

Heffernan James A. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300195583, Yale University Press, July 2014
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's "Odyssey" to Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The giving and taking of hospitality are sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of...

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Music

Jewish Studies

Forbidden Music The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Haas Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300205350, Yale University Press, June 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

When National Socialism arrived in Germany in 1933, Jews were dominating music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. The party's policy on music brought about a cultur...

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History of Art

Reynolds Portraiture in Action

Hallett Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300196979, Yale University Press, June 2014
464 pp., 29x25 cm, 350 colour imagess, 10 black&white illus.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, was the most celebrated and innovative British portraitist of the eighteenth century. He was acclaimed for transforming portraiture into an art form that had all the amb...

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Asia

Japan The Paradox of Harmony

Hirata Keiko, Warschauer Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300186079, Yale University Press, May 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For centuries, people in the West have been fascinated, enchanted and perplexed in equal measure by Japan and its culture. Following a crushing defeat in the Second World War, this small, proud country rose like a phoenix from the literal ashes to be...

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History of Art

Life Within Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence

Houston Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300196023, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 43 colour images, 72 black&white illus.

For the Classic Maya, who flourished in and around the Yucatan peninsula in the first millennium AD, artistic materials were endowed with an internal life. Far from being inert substances, jade, flint, obsidian and wood held a vital essence, agency a...

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Contemporary Art

Other Primary Structures

Hoffmann Jens

ISBN: PB: 9780300197334, Yale University Press, April 2014
116 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 25 colour images, 51 black&white illus.

The landmark Jewish Museum exhibition "Primary Structures" offered the first presentation of Minimalist sculptures in the United States, in 1966. The accompanying catalogue became a key resource on artists such as Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin,...

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Ecology

Earthmasters The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Hamilton Clive

ISBN: PB: 9780300205213, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 milli...

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Europe

Women Studies

Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

Herbert Amanda E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Indiana The American Dream

Haskell Barbara, Barilleaux Rene Paul, Nicholas Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9780300196863, Yale University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 175 colour illus.

Robert Indiana's popular LOVE works have made the esteemed Pop artist a household name. Their fame and ubiquity have also served to eclipse the rest of his dynamic, conceptually charged work. "Robert Indiana: The American Dream" is a compelling reass...

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