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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Jerome Robbins A Life in Dance

Lesser Wendy

ISBN: HB: 9780300197594, Yale University Press, October 2018
216 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Jerome Robbins (1918-1998) was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz and grew up in Weehawken, New Jersey, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned the Comfort Corset Company. Robbins, who was drawn to dance at a young age, resisted the idea of joini...

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Psychology

Well-Grounded The Neurobiology of Rational Decisions

Lambert Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300207309, Yale University Press, September 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Contingency calculations – the ability to predict the outcomes of decisions and actions – are critical for survival and success. Our amazing brains continually process past and current experiences to enable us to make the most adaptive choices. But w...

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Psychology

Empathy A History

Lanzoni Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300222685, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

"Empathy: A History" tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of "empathy" in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy's ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translatio...

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Contemporary Art

Josef Albers Interaction

Liesbrock Heinz, Growe Ulrike, Albers Anni, Beggs Michael, Danilowitz Brenda, Darwent Charles, Judd Donald, Pelkonen Eeva-Liisa, Redensek Jeannette, Zeniuk Jerry

ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...

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Birds

Evolution

Belonging on an Island Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i

Lewis Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300229646, Yale University Press, June 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

This natural history takes readers on a thousand-year journey as it explores the Hawaiian Islands' beautiful birds and a variety of topics including extinction, evolution, survival, conservationists and their work, and, most significantly, the concep...

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History of Art

Artist in Edo Studies in the History of Art

Lippit Yukio

ISBN: HB: 9780300214673, Yale University Press, June 2018
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 204 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

During the early modern period in Japan, peace and prosperity allowed elite and popular arts and culture to flourish in Edo (Tokyo) and Kyoto. The historic first showing outside Japan of It? Jakuchu's thirty-scroll series titled Colorful Realm of Liv...

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Evolution

Feats of Strength How Evolution Shapes Animal Athletic Abilities

Lailvaux Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780300222593, Yale University Press, May 2018
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

How is it that fish can climb waterfalls, snakes glide, and cheetahs run so fast? Natural and sexual selection has driven the evolution of diverse and amazing athletic abilities throughout the animal kingdom. Integrative biologist Simon Lailvaux draw...

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Culture Studies

Randomistas How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World

Leigh Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300236125, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employ...

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Biography & Memoires

Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright

Little Ann M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234572, ISBN: HB: 9780300218213, Yale University Press, May 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

An eye-opening biography of a woman at the intersection of three distinct cultures in colonial America. Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she beca...

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Jewish Studies

Rooted Cosmopolitans Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Loeffler James

ISBN: HB: 9780300217247, Yale University Press, May 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates abou...

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