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Biography & Memoires

Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

Prochaska Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780300195545, Yale University Press, August 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent Victorian lawyer, businessman, essayist and journalist. For 17 years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly "Bagehot" column. His analyses of politics, economics and p...

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Biography & Memoires

Strindberg A Life

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300198065, ISBN: HB: 9780300136937, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite draw...

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Middle East

Political Science

Forgotten Palestinians A History of the Palestinians in Israel

Pappe Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300184327, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 23.8x16.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the d...

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History of Art

Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Contemporary Art

Experiments in Modern Realism World Making in Postwar European and American Art

Potts Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300187687, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

This major study offers a new understanding of the aethetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, it shows how a powerful realist impuls...

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Architecture

Irony; or, Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture

Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300181517, Yale University Press, May 2013
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 colour images, 103 black&white illus.

In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individua...

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Fiction

Girl with the Golden Parasol

Prakash Uday, Grunebaum Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780300190540, Yale University Press, May 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm

"Just then, Rahul saw a spot of yellow far away... The yellow glowed beautifully in the morning light. There was something different about this particular yellow and was totally unlike all others. This one entered through his eyes, dissolved in his b...

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General

Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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Entomology

Mariposa Road The First Butterfly Big Year

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300190977, Yale University Press, April 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 maps

With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. could he track down in a single ye...

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