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Literary Criticism

Facts and Inventions Selections from the Journalism of James Boswell

Tankard Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300141269, Yale University Press, May 2014
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

James Boswell (1740-1795), best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson, was also a lawyer, journalist, diarist and an insightful chronicler of a pivotal epoch in Western history. This fascinating collection, edited by Paul Tankard, presents a gene...

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Philosophy

Courage to Be Third Edition

Tillich Paul, Cox Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300188790, Yale University Press, May 2014
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published more than fifty years ago, "The Courage to Be" has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul Tillich describes the dilemma of modern man and points...

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Cartography

Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus

Tsutsiev Arthur, Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300153088, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 57 colour maps

"The Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus" is a magnificent collection of fifty-six original maps with commentaries that detail the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus – the region located between the Black and Ca...

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History of Art

After Constructivism

Taylor Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300195774, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 97 black&white illus.

When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In a handsome and elegantly argued book, Brandon Taylor examine...

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History of Art

Duchess's Shells Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages

Tobin Beth Fowkes

ISBN: HB: 9780300192230, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural...

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History of Art

Ravaged Art and Culture in Times of Conflict

Tollebeek Jo, Van Assche Eline

ISBN: HB: 9780300204476, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
352 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 230 colour illus.

The year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of the conflict that would become known as World War I. In addition to the devastating loss of human life, the Great War...

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General

Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

Teele Dawn Langan

ISBN: PB: 9780300169409, Yale University Press, February 2014
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed...

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Africa

History of South Africa

Thompson Leonard, Berat Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300189353, Yale University Press, February 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations...

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Ecology

Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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History of Art

American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

Tolles Thayer, Smith Thomas B., Clark Carol, Dippie Brian W., Hassrick Peter H., Lemmey Karen, Murphy Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300197433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 245 colour images and black&white illus.

"Themes of the American West" have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tribut...

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