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Chessboard and the Web Strategies of Connection in a Networked World

Slaughter Anne-Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780300234664, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 black&white illus.

From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century. In 1961, Thomas Schelling's "The Strategy of Conflict" used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of i...

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History of Art

American Modernism Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Smith Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300233100, Yale University Press, April 2018
144 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

With an emphasis on painting and sculpture made in the United States between 1910 and 1950, this gorgeously illustrated volume offers a rich introduction to American modernism through the world-class collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The...

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America

Cherokee Diaspora An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

Smithers Gregory D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234671, ISBN: HB: 9780300169607, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one...

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Contemporary Art

Like Life Sculpture, Color, and the Body

Syson Luke, Wagstaff Sheena, Bowyer Emerson, Kumar Brinda, Hillel Schwartz

ISBN: HB: 9781588396440, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2018
312 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 284 colour illus.

Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works fro...

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History of Art

Venice Illuminated Power and Painting in Renaissance Manuscripts

Szepe Helena Katalin

ISBN: HB: 9780300226744, Yale University Press, April 2018
400 pp., 27x21.6 cm, 225 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

For patricians in the Republic of Venice, paintings in manuscripts marking their appointment to high office expressed a tension between selfless service and individual ambition. Originally of value in confirming and instructing an elected officer, th...

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Landscape Architecture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum A Guide

Silver Nathaniel, Nielsen Christina M., Riley Casey

ISBN: PB: 9780300226478, Yale University Press, March 2018
216 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 130 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution's superb collection. Gardner, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day, built a Venetian-inspired palazz...

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Jewish Studies

Polonica

Jewish Materialism The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s

Stern Eliyahu

ISBN: HB: 9780300221800, Yale University Press, March 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

To understand the organizing framework of modern Judaism, Eliyahu Stern believes that we should look deeper and farther than the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the influence and affluence of American Jewry. Against the revol...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Henry the Young King, 1155-1183

Strickland Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780300232875, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This first modern study of Henry the Young King, eldest son of Henry II but the least known Plantagenet monarch, explores the brief but eventful life of the only English ruler after the Norman Conquest to be created co-ruler in his father's lifetime....

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Biography & Memoires

Whistler A Life for Art's Sake

Sutherland Daniel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300232639, ISBN: HB: 9780300203462, Yale University Press, March 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 12 colour images, 94 black&white illus.

This first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the pop...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Whistler's Mother Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Sutherland Daniel E., Toutziari Georgia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229684, Yale University Press, March 2018
254 pp., 23.3x15.6 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This characterization, however, is far from the whole tr...

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