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Medieval

Medieval Europe

Wickham Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300228823, ISBN: HB: 9780300208344, Yale University Press, August 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages. The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformativ...

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History of Art

Ivory Mirror The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

Perkinson Stephen, Speakman Naomi, Baker Katherine, Morrison Elizabeth, Solberg Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300225952, Yale University Press, August 2017
240 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 190 colour illus.

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this p...

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Literary Criticism

Bande Dessinee: Thinking Outside the Boxes Yale French Studies, Number 131/132

Grove Laurence, Syrotinski Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300225983, Yale University Press, August 2017
248 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The latest installment of Yale French Studies explores the history and development of bande dessinee, Franco-Belgian comics. This special issue of "Yale French Studies" on bande dessinee is a multifaceted reflection on its newfound academic status....

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Europe

Children's World Growing Up in Russia (1890-1991)

Kelly Catriona

ISBN: HB: 9780300112269, Yale University Press, August 2017
480 pp., 24.6x17.1 cm, 115 black&white illus.

How a country views its children reveals a great deal. This landmark history of childhood in twentieth-century Russia presents an enthralling and detailed picture of a society where childhood was celebrated everywhere, but children's real needs were...

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Contemporary Art

Mel Bochner Voices

Sigler Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230352, Yale University Press, August 2017
96 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 43 colour illus.

Mel Bochner (b. 1940) is recognized as one of the leading figures in the development of Conceptual art in New York in the 1960s and 1970s. He pioneered the introduction of the use of language in the visual, probing the way they relate to one another...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Deadly Legacy German Jews and the Great War

Grady Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300192049, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany's endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim Grady examines the efforts of the 100,000 Jewish soldiers who served in the German military...

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Europe

Military

Hitler's Soldiers The German Army in the Third Reich

Shepherd Ben H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300228809, ISBN: HB: 9780300179033, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For decades after 1945, it was generally believed that the German army, professional and morally decent, had largely stood apart from the SS, Gestapo, and other corps of the Nazi machine. Ben Shepherd draws on a wealth of primary sources and recent s...

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Photography

Eugene Richards The Run of Time

Hostetler Lisa, Watson April M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300227178, Yale University Press, August 2017
252 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 155 colour and tritone illus.

The first publication to situate the work of Richards in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice. Eugene Richards (b. 1944) is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching expl...

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Technology & Engineering

Popular Science

Eureka How Invention Happens

Weightman Gavin

ISBN: PB: 9780300228854, Yale University Press, August 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Tracing the long pre-history of five twentieth-century inventions which have transformed our lives, Gavin Weightman reveals a fantastic cast of scientists and inspired amateurs whose ingenuity has given us the airplane, television, bar code, personal...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Woods Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

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