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Asia

Great Game East India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9780300195675, Yale University Press, June 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.

Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the Brit...

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Landscape Architecture

Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800

Laird Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300196368, Yale University Press, May 2015
464 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Inspired by the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White, who viewed natural history as the common study of cultural and natural communities, Mark Laird unearths forgotten historical data to reveal the complex visual cultures of early modern gardening. Ra...

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America

Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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America

Amistad's Orphans An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Lawrance Benjamin Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300198454, Yale University Press, March 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revis...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Ennion Master of Roman Glass

Lightfoot Christopher, Wight Karol B., Pilosi Lisa, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300208771, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2015
160 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour illus.

Among glass craftsmen active in the first century A.D., the most famous and gifted was Ennion, who came from the coastal city of Sidon in modern Lebanon. Ennion's glass stood out for its quality and popularity, and his products are distinguished by t...

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Literary Criticism

Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Philosophy

Passions

Leopardi Giacomo, Parks Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300186338, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm

The extraordinary quality of Giacomo Leopardi's writing and the innovative nature of his thought were never fully recognized in his lifetime. Zibaldone, his 4,500-page intellectual diary – a vast collection of thoughts on philosophy, civilization, li...

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Design

Kem Weber, Designer and Architect

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300206272, Yale University Press, November 2014
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 96 colour images, 205 black&white illus.

For German-born Kem Weber (1889-1963), design was not about finding a new expression; it was about responding to "structural, economic, and social requirements...characteristic of our daily routine of living". He sought to ensure that each design he...

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History of Art

James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables

Ledbury Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300208139, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a...

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History of Art

Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River

Luarca-Shoaf Nenette, Barry Claire, Heugh Nancy, Kornhauser Elizabeth Mankin, Mahon Dorothy, Walker Andrew J, Turk Janeen, Conrads Margaret C., Benjamin Brent R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300206708, Yale University Press, October 2014
200 pp., 26.7x27.9 cm, 174 colour images and 10 black&white illus.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life, for which he is now famous, in the 1840s. "Navigating the West" explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and econom...

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