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America

William Clark's World Describing America in an Age of Unknowns

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139013, Yale University Press, January 2011
320 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 41 black&white illus.

William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through the...

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Middle East

Persians Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran

Katouzian Homa

ISBN: PB: 9780300169324, Yale University Press, October 2010
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons – for its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear programme, and controversial role in the Middle East – but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than...

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Women Studies

Butterfly's Sisters The Geisha in Western Culture

Kawaguchi Yoko

ISBN: HB: 9780300115215, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Yoko Kawaguchi explores the Western portrayal of Japanese women – and geishas in particular – from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. She argues that in the West, Japanese women have come to embo...

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Fashion

100 Dresses The Costume Institute

Koda Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300166552, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010
232 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 28 black&white illus., 153 colour illus.

What woman can resist imagining herself in a beautiful designer dress? Here, for the first time ever, are 100 fabulous gowns from the permanent collection of the renowned Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, each of which is a reminde...

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History of Art

Blessed and Beautiful Picturing the Saints

Kiely Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300162776, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 24x17 cm, 130 colour illus.

This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely, a distinguished scholar of modernist literature and a historian and critic of exceptional se...

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Contemporary Art

Salvador Dali The Late Work

King Elliott H., Teixidor Montse Aguer, Hine Hank, Jeffett William

ISBN: HB: 9780300168280, Yale University Press, August 2010
184 pp., 28.1x21.2 cm, 110 colour illus.

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the most famous and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Although he was prolific for more than sixty years – creating 1,200 oil paintings, countless drawings, sculptures, theatre and fashion designs, b...

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History of Art

Dance around the Golden Calf by Lucas van Leyden

Kok Jan Piet Filedt

ISBN: PB: 9789086890408, Yale University Press, August 2010
68 pp., 23.6x16.8 cm, 72 illus.

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the seventeenth century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands and was influenced by both Durer and Raphael. His paintings are lively, colourful, and full of na...

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History of Art

Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection

Kanter Laurence, Marciari John

ISBN: HB: 9780300114881, Yale University Press, July 2010
272 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 60 black&white illus., 77 colour illus.

Richard L. Feigen has amassed a collection of Italian paintings that is widely admired for its depth and quality, especially for the works it features by the principal masters of the early Italian Renaissance. This beautifully illustrated catalogue o...

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Ecology

Regulating from Nowhere Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity

Kysar Douglas A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300120011, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Drawing insight from cross-disciplinary sources, Douglas Kysar exposes a critical flaw in the dominant environmental law and policy paradigm of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis. To compensate for the shortcomings he identifies, Kysar offers...

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Europe

Enlightened Pleasures Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism

Kavanagh Thomas M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140941, Yale University Press, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue – a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly...

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