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Film Studies

Steven Spielberg A Life in Films

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...

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Ecology

Burn Out The Endgame for Fossil Fuels

Helm Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780300234480, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change. Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how...

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History of Art

AniMystikAKtivist Between Traditional and the Contemporary in African Art

Hoffmann Jens, Strother Zoe

ISBN: HB: 9780300233230, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2018
128 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

South African-born Belgian artist Kendell Geers changed his date of birth to MAY 1968 as a performance, effectively giving birth to himself as a work of art. His artistic practice weaves together African animism, European mysticism, and socio-politic...

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History of Art

Michel Sittow Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe

Hand John Oliver, Koppel Greta, Borchert Till-Holger, Mand Anu, van Suchtelen Ariane, Weniger Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9780300232868, Yale University Press, February 2018
144 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in S...

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Mammals

Evolution

Great Apes A Short History

Herzfeld Chris, Goodall Jane, Frey Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...

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History of Art

Picturing War in France, 1792-1856

Hornstein Katie

ISBN: HB: 9780300228267, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores ho...

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Anthropology

Gifted Passage Young Men in Classic Maya Art and Text

Houston Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300228960, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 56 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

In this thought-provoking book, preeminent scholar Stephen Houston turns his attention to the crucial role of young males in Classic Maya society, drawing on evidence from art, writing, and material culture. "The Gifted Passage" establishes that adol...

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Other

New Cosmic Story Inside Our Awakening Universe

Haught John F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217032, Yale University Press, November 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Gluck Art and Identity

Haye Amy de la, Pel Martin, Horsley Jeffrey, Patrick Andrew Macintosh, Martin Simon, Clarke Gill, Souhami Diana, Wilson Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230482, Yale University Press, November 2017
208 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 236 colour illus.

Hannah Gluckstein (who called herself Gluck; 1895-1976) was a distinctive, original voice in the early evolution of modern art in Britain. This handsome book presents a major reassessment of Gluck's life and work, examining, among other things, the a...

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History of Art

Drawn in Colour Degas at the Burrell Collection

Hamilton Vivien, Domercq Julien, Herring Sarah, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857096255, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
112 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

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