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Contemporary Art

Paintings of Moholy-Nagy The Shape of Things to Come

Tsai Joyce, Thomas James Merle, Waentig Friederike, Feinberg Larry J., Kahng Eik

ISBN: HB: 9780300209976, Yale University Press, June 2015
128 pp., 29.9x21.6 cm, 75 colour illus.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) became notorious for the declarations he made about the end of painting, encouraging artists to exchange brush, pigment, and canvas for camera, film, and searchlight. Even as he made these radical claims, he painted thr...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Edward Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of the Works on Paper, Volume 1: 1956-1976

Turvey Lisa, Cooper Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780300209495, Yale University Press, December 2014
350 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 1040 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated book – the first in a series of three – comprehensively chronicles the first two decades of Ed Ruscha's work on paper, which comprises the largest component of his production of original works. Over 1,000 works on paper are do...

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Contemporary Art

Julia Wachtel

Thuring Reto, Burton Johanna, Latimer Quinn, Wachtel Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300209969, Yale University Press, October 2014
80 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 40 colour illus.

Rising to prominence in the early 1980s, Julia Wachtel's (b. 1956) artistic practice focuses on the visual language of mass culture. Like her Pictures Generation counterparts, Wachtel's work in the early 1980s appropriated popular imagery to critique...

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Psychology

Jealousy

Toohey Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300189681, Yale University Press, October 2014
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...

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Europe

Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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Europe

Danube A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

Thorpe Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300205459, Yale University Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to we...

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Europe

Invention of Scotland Myth and History

Trevor-Roper Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780300208580, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Now with a new preface to mark the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, this is a characteristically robust and controversial account of Scottish myth and history by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of Britain's greatest historians. In this work Tre...

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Biography & Memoires

Thomas Aquinas A Portrait

Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300205947, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher, and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered...

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History

Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science

Thomson Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...

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