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Dynamite Club How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siecle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300217926, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Distinguished historian John Merriman maintains that the Age of Modern Terror began in Paris on February 12, 1894, when anarchist Emile Henry set off a bomb in the Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding twenty French citizens. The true story of the...

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Christianity

Spiritual Defiance Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Meyers Robin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219814, ISBN: HB: 9780300203523, Yale University Press, May 2016
168 pp., 21x14 cm

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the c...

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Fashion

Denim Fashion's Frontier

McClendon Emma, Dennis Fred

ISBN: HB: 9780300219142, Yale University Press, March 2016
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

Denim is one of the world's favorite fabrics, and today it accounts for the largest segment of the clothing industry. The market for jeans alone is worth over 55 billion dollars. Experiments with denim by designers have helped to develop a vast vocab...

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Europe

Massacre The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871

Merriman John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219449, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18 March and 28 May. Its brief rule ended in "Bloody Week"...

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Architecture

Apethorpe The Story of an English Country House

Morrison Kathryn A., Cattell John, Cole Emily, Hill Nick, Smith Pete

ISBN: HB: 9780300148701, Yale University Press, March 2016
480 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

This beautiful publication narrates the romantic biography of an architecturally significant country residence and its rescue from decline. Dating from the mid-15th century, Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was home to a succession of leading courtiers...

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Fiction

After the Circus A Novel

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300215892, Yale University Press, January 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano's writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author...

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Medieval

Medieval Christianity A New History

Madigan Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780300216776, Yale University Press, December 2015
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign – a miraculous, brutal and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the inquisition, the crusades and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind. Yet the medi...

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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)

Meier John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...

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Philosophy

Nietzsche's Orphans Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire

Mitchell Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300208894, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a shared identity for the Russian people across social a...

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