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Christianity

From Christ to Confucius German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950

Wu Albert Monshan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217070, Yale University Press, January 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

A bold and original study of German missionaries in China, who catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself In this accessibly written and empirically based study, Albert Wu documents how German...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Jorn + Munch

Wildhagen Gjessing Oda, Grogaard Stian, Presler Gerd, Stene Johansen Knut

ISBN: HB: 9780300226584, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2016
240 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

"Jorn + Munch" is the first publication to examine the enduring impact Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had on Asger Jorn (1914-1973). In Munch's later works, Danish artist Jorn discovered an artist with a direct, spontaneous, and raw form of expression. Alr...

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Astronomy

All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life

Willis Jon

ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...

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Contemporary Art

No Limits Zao Wou-Ki

Walt Melissa, Yun Michelle, Weitz Ankeney

ISBN: HB: 9780300220186, Yale University Press, October 2016
184 pp., 29.9x23.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

The Chinese-French painter Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013) developed a distinctive abstract style blending the visual poetry of Chinese painting and calligraphy with European pictorial traditions. This stunning volume presents a richly woven narrative of the...

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Gender Studies

Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

Weisser Olivia

ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, ISBN: HB: 9780300200706, Yale University Press, October 2016
296 pp., 23x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...

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Contemporary Art

As Essential as Dreams Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither

White Michelle, Adele Lynne, Anderson Brooke Davis, Breslin David, Espinosa Victor M., Gomez Edward M., Hernandez Jo Farb, Kogan Lee, Rhodes Colin, Umberger Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300218411, Yale University Press, September 2016
112 pp., 24.8x29.2 cm, 114 colour illus.

This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics, and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artis...

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Decorative Arts

Maiolica Italian Renaissance Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wilson Timothy, Syson Luke

ISBN: HB: 9781588395610, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2016
392 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 365 colour illus.

The brightly colored tin-enameled earthenware called maiolica was among the major accomplishments of decorative arts in 16th-century Italy. This in-depth look at the history of maiolica, told through 140 exemplary pieces from the world-class collecti...

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History of Art

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Wilson-Bareau Juliet, Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9780300196269, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x25.5 cm, 354 colour illus.

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre,...

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Poetry

Destroyer in Glass

Warren Noah, Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300217155, ISBN: HB: 9780300217148, Yale University Press, May 2016
104 pp., 21x14 cm

Noah Warren's brilliant collection of poetry, "The Destroyer in the Glass", is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the...

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History of Art

Japanomania in the Nordic Countries, 1875-1918

Weisberg Gabriel P., Bonsdorff Anna-Maria von

ISBN: HB: 9780300220117, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
256 pp., 29.2x23.5 cm, 170 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

This extensive publication, complete with hundreds of illustrations by such renowned artists as Carl Larsson, Edvard Munch, Vilhelm Hammershoi, Pekka Halonen, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Gerhard Munthe, Pietro Krohn, Helene Schjerfbeck, and Frida Hansen,...

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