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History of Art

Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio Early Paintings and New Attributions

Kanter Laurence, Piccione Albertson Rita, Mottin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300233018, Yale University Press, October 2018
150 pp., 28.6x20.3 cm, 102 colour illus., 17 black&white illus., including 3 gatefolds

This groundbreaking reexamination of the beginnings of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) life as an artist suggests new candidates for his earliest surviving work and revises our understanding of his role in the studio of his teacher, Andrea del Verroc...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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History of Art

Matisse and Decoration

Klein John

ISBN: HB: 9780300135640, Yale University Press, October 2018
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

Between 1935 and his death at midcentury, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) undertook many decorative projects and commissions. These include mural paintings, stained glass, ceramic tiles, lead crystal pieces, carpets, tapestries, fashion fabrics, and access...

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Philosophy

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes

Kant Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300227437, Yale University Press, July 2018
144 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Losing Control The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236941, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In this vividly written and compellingly argued book, economist Stephen D. King suggests that the decades ahead will see a major redistribution of wealth and power across the globe that will force consumers in the United States and Europe to stop liv...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

When the Money Runs Out The End of Western Affluence

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236934, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval.

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Political Science

Invisible Countries Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood

Keating Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780300221626, Yale University Press, June 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

What is a country? While certain basic criteria – borders, a government, and recognition from other countries – seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating's book explores exceptions to these rules, including self-proclaimed countries such as Abkhazia, K...

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Media Studies

Server A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

Krajewski Markus, Iurascu Ilinca

ISBN: HB: 9780300180817, Yale University Press, June 2018
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are current-d...

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Computer Science & Internet

Virtual Weapon and International Order

Kello Lucas

ISBN: PB: 9780300234497, ISBN: HB: 9780300220230, Yale University Press, May 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

An urgently needed examination of the current cyber revolution that draws on case studies to develop conceptual frameworks for understanding its effects on international order. The cyber revolution is the revolution of our time. The rapid expansion...

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Business & Economics

Little Histories

Little History of Economics

Kishtainy Niall

ISBN: PB: 9780300234527, Yale University Press, May 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field. What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention i...

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