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Design
Fashion
Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010
Martin Earl
ISBN: HB: 9780300170696, Yale University Press, July 2011
400 pp., 26.5x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.
In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Florence Schust joined the firm and helped establish its interior design division, the Knoll Planning Unit. In 1947, the year after...
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Literary Criticism
Words of Others From Quotations to Culture
Morson Gary Saul
ISBN: HB: 9780300167474, Yale University Press, July 2011
336 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm
In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of others. Ranging from the remote past to the present, he explores the formation, development, and significa...
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Philosophy
Edmund Husserl's Freiburg Years, 1916-1938
Mohanty J. N.
ISBN: HB: 9780300152210, Yale University Press, June 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In his award-winning book "The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development", J. N. Mohanty charted Husserl's philosophical development from the young man's earliest studies – informed by his work as a mathematician – to the publication of...
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Contemporary Art
Migrant's Time Rethinking Art History and Diaspora
Mathur Saloni
ISBN: PB: 9780300134148, Yale University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 75 black&white illus.
In the 21st century, the experience of leaving home and crossing national boundaries belongs to ever-growing numbers of persons. Whether escaping persecution or seeking work, fleeing hopelessness or striving for creative opportunities, each migrant –...
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Biography & Memoires
Judge A Life of Thomas Mellon, Founder of a Fortune
Mellon James
ISBN: HB: 9780300167146, Yale University Press, May 2011
528 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 56 black&white illus.
Lawyer, judge, banker, classics professor, and councilman, Thomas Mellon greatly influenced the fortunes of his hometown, Pittsburgh, throughout the nineteenth century. In the process, he became one of the city's most important business leaders, and...
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Contemporary Art
Legacy The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Miller Dana
ISBN: HB: 9780300171082, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 392 colour illus.
In May 2010, New York philanthropist Emily Fisher Landau promised 370 works by more than 85 artists to the Whitney Museum of American Art. This handsome volume highlights each of the artists in the gift, including Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Willem de...
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Middle East
Pashas Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World
Mather James
ISBN: PB: 9780300170917, Yale University Press, March 2011
320 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travellers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluri...
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Political Science
Superpower Illusions How Myths and False Ideologies Led America Astray - and How to Return to Reality
Matlock Jack F.
ISBN: PB: 9780300171419, Yale University Press, March 2011
344 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm
In this title, Jack Matlock refutes the enduring idea that the United States forced the collapse of the Soviet Union by applying military and economic pressure, with wide-ranging implications for U. S. foreign policy. Matlock argues that Gorbachev, n...
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History of Art
George Inness in Italy
Mitchell Mark D.
ISBN: PB: 9780300171167, Yale University Press, February 2011
60 pp., 27.8x20.4 cm, 10 black&white illus., 35 colour illus.
A canonical figure in American painting, George Inness (1825-1894) is widely admired as the pioneer of the landscape aesthetic known as Tonalism, which is distinguished by soft focus and diaphanous layers of paint. This is the first book about the ar...
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America
Peter's War A New England Slave Boy and the American Revoultion
Malcolm Joyce Lee
ISBN: PB: 9780300168068, ISBN: HB: 9780300119305, Yale University Press, January 2011
272 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 4 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the rev...
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