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Ecology

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Slack Nancy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161380, Yale University Press, January 2011
448 pp., 23.9x16 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Stephen J. Gould declared Evelyn Hutchinson the most important ecologist of the twentieth century. E. O. Wilson pronounced him "one of the few scientists who could unabashedly be called a genius". In this fascinating book, Nancy Slack presents for th...

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Anthropology

From Land to Mouth The Agricultural "Economy" of the Wola of the New Guinea Highlands

Sillitoe Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300142266, Yale University Press, December 2010
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 172 black&white illus.

Offers a comparison of the apparently incomparable: our capitalist economy to the subsistence-cum-exchange order of the Wola people in the Was Valley.

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Performing Arts

Uncloseting Drama American Modernism and Queer Performance

Salvato Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300155396, Yale University Press, November 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Illuminates modernism through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the "closet drama" – plays written largely for private reading – as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.

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Jewish Studies

Plumes Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

Stein Sarah Abrevaya

ISBN: PB: 9780300168181, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 17 black&white illus.

The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consu...

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Criminology

At Home in the Law How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy

Suk Jeannie

ISBN: PB: 9780300172621, Yale University Press, October 2010
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic a...

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Biography & Memoires

Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art

Sensibar Judith L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...

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Fashion

Japan Fashion Now

Steele Valerie

ISBN: PB: 9780300167276, Yale University Press, September 2010
240 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese 'fashion revolution' of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But w...

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History of Art

Meet Rembrandt Life and Work of the Master Painter

Schwartz Gary

ISBN: PB: 9789086890576, Yale University Press, August 2010
112 pp., 21.2x14.8 cm, 85 illus.

Rembrandt was a painter and draftsman of undisputed genius, but what was he like as a person? The mystery of the moody and inspired Rembrandt continues to fascinate. Gary Schwartz tells the story of Rembrandt the man, artist, and legend in lively and...

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Middle East

Not the Enemy Israel's Jews from Arab Lands

Shabi Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780300167696, Yale University Press, July 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.

In this remarkable, page-turning book, Rachel Shabi lays bare the painful division within Israeli society between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Eastern Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle E...

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History of Art

Painting for Profit The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-Century Italian Painters

Spear Richard E., Sohm Philip, Ago Renata, Goldthwaite Richard A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154566, Yale University Press, May 2010
400 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 120 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

How did economic conditions influence painters in seventeenth-century Italy? How much did they earn? What is known about their socio-economic status and their aspirations? How did they maximize profits? Did they adjust their prices in response to mar...

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