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History of Art

Serra Richard, Foster Hal

ISBN: PB: 9780300235968, Yale University Press, November 2018
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 116 duotone illus.

Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra's prolific six-decade career and the ideas that have informed his working pract...

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Film Studies

Jennifer Steinkamp Blind Eye

Saltzman Lisa, Ewing James

ISBN: PB: 9780300237054, Yale University Press, October 2018
80 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.

Best known for immersive video projections that use digitally animated natural and abstract forms to investigate themes such as the passage of time and organic movement, Jennifer Steinkamp (b. 1958) is one of today's most innovative artists. Featurin...

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Philosophy

Modernity and its Discontents Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow

Smith Steven B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240238, ISBN: HB: 9780300198393, Yale University Press, October 2018
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the sel...

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History of Art

Pastels in the Musee du Louvre 17th and 18th Centuries

Salmon Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9780300238631, Yale University Press, September 2018
360 pp., 28.6x24.4 cm, 230 colour and black&white illus.

The Mus e du Louvre boasts an exceptional collection of 17th- and 18th-century European pastels. Due to their fragility, there have been scant opportunities to view and learn from these spectacular artworks. This in-depth examination of the collectio...

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Earth Sciences

City Unseen New Visions of an Urban Planet

Seto Karen C., Reba Meredith, Sullivan Kathryn D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221695, Yale University Press, September 2018
268 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 147 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhanc...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Political Science

Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Tooze Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300228526, Yale University Press, June 2018
376 pp., 21x14 cm

The most powerful military alliance in history, NATO shaped the geopolitical contours of the Cold War and continues to structure the contemporary international system. The NATO agreement is reprinted here with speeches and essential historical docume...

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History of Art

Royal Academy of Arts History and Collections

Simon Robin, Stevens MaryAnne

ISBN: HB: 9780300232073, Yale University Press, May 2018
676 pp., 28.9x24.8 cm, 554 colour and black&white illus.

Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a half centuries. Thousands of paintings, sculptures, drawings,...

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Jewish Studies

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Revelation and Authority Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition

Sommer Benjamin D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234688, ISBN: HB: 9780300158731, Yale University Press, May 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a "participatory theory of revelation" as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence t...

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Business & Economics

Is Entrepreneurship Dead? The Truth About Startups in America

Shane Scott A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300212112, Yale University Press, April 2018
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 65 black&white illus.

It's become an article of faith that American entrepreneurship is in trouble. The problems are many: lack of capital, too few entrepreneurial immigrants, excessive regulation, an aging population, slowing population growth, and rising student debt. B...

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