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History of Art

Making the Modern Artist Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain

Myrone Martin

ISBN: HB: 9781913107154, Yale University Press, September 2020
288 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 200 illus.

The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to scrutiny? "Making the Modern Artis...

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Christianity

Voting About God in Early Church Councils

MacMullen Ramsay

ISBN: PB: 9780300255416, Yale University Press, August 2020
182 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

In this study, Ramsay MacMullen steps aside from the well-worn path that previous scholars have trod to explore exactly how early Christian doctrines became official. Drawing on extensive verbatim stenographic records, he analyzes the ecumenical coun...

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Jewish Studies

Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition

Mirvis Stanley

ISBN: HB: 9780300238815, Yale University Press, August 2020
312 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

Based on last wills and testaments composed by Jamaican Jews between 1673 and 1815, this book explores the social and familial experiences of one of the most critical yet understudied nodes of the Atlantic Portuguese Jewish Diaspora. Stanley Mirvis e...

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Culture Studies

Literary Criticism

Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...

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Military

War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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History of Art

Bernini's Michelangelo

Mangone Carolina

ISBN: HB: 9780300247732, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 143 colour illus.

Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), like all ambitious artists, imitated eminent predecessors. What set him apart was his lifelong and multifaceted focus on Michelangelo Buonarroti – the master of the previous age. Bernini's Michelangelo is the first co...

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Popular Science

Clock Mirage Our Myth of Measured Time

Mazur Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300229325, Yale University Press, June 2020
272 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles? Award-winning author and ma...

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Ecology

Anthropocene and the Humanities From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300244236, Yale University Press, June 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 80 black&white illus.

From noted environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, this book focuses on the original concept of the Anthropocene first proposed by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in their foundational 2000 paper. It undertakes a broad investigation into the ways...

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Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Church A New History

McGuckin John Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300218763, Yale University Press, May 2020
376 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In this short, accessible account of the Eastern Orthodox Church, John McGuckin begins by tackling the question "What is the Church?" His answer is a clear, historically and theologically rooted portrait of what the Church is for Orthodox Christianit...

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Birds

Ecology

In Search of Meadowlarks Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land

Marzluff John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237146, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

With predictions of a human population of more than nine billion by the middle of this century and eleven billion by 2100, we stand at a crossroads in our agricultural evolution. In this clear and engaging yet scientifically rigorous book, wildlife b...

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