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America

Surge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

Lane Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300203738, Yale University Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt...

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Military

Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300227512, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall mili...

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Philosophy

Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence With Selections from the Correspondence with Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels

Leibniz Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm, Arnauld Antoine, Voss Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300206531, Yale University Press, February 2017
472 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this critical edition, Leibniz submits his metaphysics of substance and form, concomitance and expression, freedom and necessity to the searching Socratic interrogation of Arnauld In this critical edition, Stephen Voss establishes the text of the...

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Law

Face That Launched a Thousand Lawsuits The American Women Who Forged a Right to Privacy

Lake Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300214222, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm

A compelling account of how women shaped the common law right to privacy during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Drawing on a wealth of original research, Jessica Lake documents how the advent of photography and cinema drove women –...

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Architecture

New Space Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture

Long Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300218282, Yale University Press, January 2017
264 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus., 114 black&white illus.

Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870-1933),...

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Performing Arts

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays

Lake Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300222715, Yale University Press, November 2016
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakes...

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History of Art

Valentin de Boulogne Beyond Caravaggio

Lemoine Annick, Christiansen Keith, Allard Sebastian, Cavazzini Patrizia, Cuzin Jean-Pierre, Papi Gianni

ISBN: HB: 9781588396020, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
288 pp., 28.5x24.1 cm, 145 colour illus.

The first comprehensive English monograph on an outstanding 17th-century artist In the years following Caravaggio's death, the French-born painter Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the greatest masters of naturalistic painting, demon...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Richard Diebenkorn The Catalogue Raisonne

Livingston Jane, Liguori Andrea, Elderfield John, Nash Steven, Fine Ruth E., Nordland Gerald, Grant Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300184501, Yale University Press, October 2016
2176 pp., 31.1x25.1 cm, vol. 1: 299 colour illus.; vol. 2: 1645 colour illus.; vol. 3: 2344 colour illus.

A four-volume definitive resource on the career and unique works of the postwar American artist Richard Diebenkorn The celebrated American artist Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993) was a singular figure in postwar American art. Early in his career, he cr...

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Birds

Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Low Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...

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Computer Science & Internet

Web Style Guide Foundations of User Experience Design

Lynch Patrick J., Horton Sarah, Marcotte Ethan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211658, Yale University Press, August 2016
408 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 215 colour illus.

A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites, updated to reflect a rapidly changing market Consistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, "Web Style Guide" has sold many thousands...

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