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Wittgenstein Vitrine Modern Opulence in Vienna

Tucker Kevin W., Baas Fran

ISBN: HB: 9780300214574, Yale University Press, December 2015
88 pp., 28x17.8 cm, 90 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

The Wittgenstein Vitrine, a monumental silver and gemstone-encrusted cabinet, is one of the most important and complex works produced by Austria's Wiener Werkstatte. Kevin W. Tucker weaves together a fascinating portrait of the vitrine, examining its...

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Drinks

Cultural Studies

Natural History of Wine

Tattersall Ian, DeSalle Rob, Wynne Patricia J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211023, Yale University Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.2x14.6 cm, 62 colour illus.

An excellent bottle of wine can be the spark that inspires a brainstorming session. Such was the case for Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle, scientists who frequently collaborate on book and museum exhibition projects. When the conversation turned to wi...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Proust The Future's Secret

Taylor Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...

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Literary Criticism

Essays

Thoreau Henry David, Cramer Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216806, ISBN: HB: 9780300164985, Yale University Press, November 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This new selection of Thoreau's essays traces his trajectory as a writer for the outlets of his day – the periodical press, newspapers, and compendiums – and as a frequent presenter on the local lecture circuit. By arranging the writings chronologica...

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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Fiction

Anna Karenina

Tolstoy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300216820, Yale University Press, September 2015
800 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Tolstoy produced many drafts of "Anna Karenina". Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, his use of language was anything but casual. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instru...

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Contemporary Art

T. R. Ericsson Crackle and Drag

Tannenbaum Barbara L., Gerspacher Arnaud

ISBN: HB: 9780300213218, Yale University Press, August 2015
240 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

This is the first monograph dedicated to contemporary artist TR Ericsson (b. 1972), who with conceptual rigor and emotional directness uses the archives chronicling his family's painful past to explore the healing powers of commemoration and memory....

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Business & Economics

Other People's Houses How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business

Taub Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300212709, ISBN: HB: 9780300168983, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded c...

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History

Private Doubt, Public Dilemma Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin

Thomson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300203677, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...

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Russian

Poetry Reader for Russian Learners

Titus Julia, Moore Mario, McIntosh Wayde

ISBN: PB: 9780300184631, Yale University Press, July 2015
248 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Through the poetry of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian authors, including Pushkin and Akhmatova, "Poetry Reader for Russian Learners" helps upper-beginner, intermediate, and advanced Russian students refine their language skills. Poems are c...

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