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Forging Capitalism Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance

Klaus Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300223590, ISBN: HB: 9780300181944, Yale University Press, January 2017
296 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's "Forging Capitalism"...

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Christianity

George Whitefield America's Spiritual Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223583, Yale University Press, October 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd's fascinating n...

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Cartography

Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300

Kupfer Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...

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Europe

First Circumnavigators Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

Kelsey Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300217780, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the fi...

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America

American Colonial History Clashing Cultures and Faiths

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187328, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a vivid narrative reconstruc...

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Ecology

Wild Soundscapes Discovering the Voice of the Natural World

Krause Bernie, Payne Roger

ISBN: PB: 9780300218190, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Through his organization Wild Sanctuary, Bernie Krause has traveled the globe to hear and record the sounds of diverse natural habitats. Wild Soundscapes, first published in 2002, inspires readers to follow in Krause's footsteps. The book enchantingl...

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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Psychology

On Being Human Why Mind Matters

Kagan Jerome

ISBN: HB: 9780300217360, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this thought-provoking book, psychologist Jerome Kagan urges readers to sally forth from their usual comfort zones. He ponders a series of important nodes of debate while challenging us to examine what we know and why we know it. Most critically h...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Stalin New Biography of a Dictator

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Favorov Nora Seligman

ISBN: PB: 9780300219784, Yale University Press, May 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Milli...

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Middle East

Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: HB: 9780300215625, Yale University Press, April 2016
312 pp., 21x14 cm

The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never ris...

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