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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto Writing Our History

Roskies David G., Kassow Samuel D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300236729, Yale University Press, June 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these writings from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust in the words of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collecti...

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Biography & Memoires

Contemporary Art

Alfred Stieglitz Taking Pictures, Making Painters

Rose Phyllis

ISBN: HB: 9780300226485, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 89 black&white illus.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his career is often overshadowed by his role as Georgia O'Keeffe's husband. This new book from celebrated biographer Phyllis Rose reconsiders Stiegl...

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Evolution

Popular Science

Nature's Giants The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms

Ruxton Graeme D., Owen-Smith Norman

ISBN: HB: 9780300239881, Yale University Press, April 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 350 colour illus.

The colossal plants and animals of our world – dinosaurs, whales, and even trees – are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a h...

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Contemporary Art

Huma Bhabha They Live

Respini Eva, Foster Carter E., Halter Ed, Hong Jessica, Jhaveri Shanay, Bhabha Huma, Ruby Sterling

ISBN: HB: 9780300244762, Yale University Press, March 2019
208 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 160 colour illus.

Huma Bhabha (b. 1962 in Karachi) is known for sculptures depicting the human figure fashioned from materials ranging from clay, brick, and wood to Styrofoam, bronze, found objects, and construction materials. Such works reveal her myriad influences,...

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Poetry

Selected Poems

Riordain Sean O., Sewell Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300240184, ISBN: HB: 9780300190588, Yale University Press, March 2019
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O. Riordain, among others. O. Riordain's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's Irish readers and writers. This...

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Contemporary Art

Contesting Modernity Informalism in Venezuela, 1955-1975

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Gaztambide Maria, Manrique Josefina, Rangel Gabriela, Rivero Tahia

ISBN: HB: 9780300236897, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 305 colour and black&white illus.

This fascinating exploration of Venezuelan Informalism charts the movement's history from its beginnings in the mid-1950s to its last manifestations in the 1970s. Essays by an esteemed group of scholars discuss the variety, richness, and complexity o...

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Criminology

23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary

Reiter Keramet

ISBN: PB: 9780300240191, ISBN: HB: 9780300211467, Yale University Press, November 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in feat...

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Biography & Memoires

America

George Washington The Wonder of the Age

Rhodehamel John

ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...

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Contemporary Art

Martha Rosler Irrespective

Rosler Martha, Backer Shira, Deutsche Rosalyn, Volpato Elena, Nesbit Molly

ISBN: HB: 9780300230277, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 24.8x23.5 cm, 300 colour illus.

The work of Martha Rosler is perennially incisive, provocative, political, and timely, exploring a range of issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women. Over her prolific career,...

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History of Art

Mark Rothko From the Inside Out

Rothko Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300238419, ISBN: HB: 9780300204728, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 74 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned icon of Abstract Expressionism, is rediscovered in this wholly original examination of his art and life written by his son. Synthesizing rigorous critique with personal anecdotes, Christopher, the younger of th...

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