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Ecology

Hemlock A Forest Giant on the Edge

Foster David R., D'Amato Anthony, Baiser Benjamin, Ellison Aaron M., Foster David, Orwig David, Oswald Wyatt, Plotkin Audrey Barker, Thompson Jonathan, Long Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300179385, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A "foundation...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Riddle of the Feathered Dragons Hidden Birds of China

Feduccia Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205756, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 242 black&white illus.

Examining and interpreting recent spectacular fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists have arrived at a prevailing view: there is now incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living dinosaur. But is this conclusion beyond dispute?...

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Poetry

Judaism

Poetry of Kabbalah Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition

Cole Peter, Dykman Aminadav

ISBN: PB: 9780300205695, ISBN: HB: 9780300169164, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

This groundbreaking collection presents for the first time in English a substantial body of poetry from the world of Jewish mysticism. Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition,...

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Political Science

Charter of the United Nations Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Lampert Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300180435, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm

An essential addition to the Basic Documents of World Politics series, this volume presents the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as other related historic documents and essays on t...

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History of Art

Lee Bontecou Drawn Worlds

White Michelle, Ashton Dore, Banach Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300204131, Yale University Press, June 2014
120 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 82 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological and t...

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Contemporary Art

Funk & Wag from to Z

Chin Mel

ISBN: HB: 9780300204506, Yale University Press, June 2014
328 pp., 27.9x41.9 cm, 549 black&white illus.

This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopaedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a twenty-five-volume set...

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Christianity

Christ Child Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus

Davis Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149456, Yale University Press, June 2014
432 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Little is known about the early childhood of Jesus Christ. But in the decades after his death, stories began circulating about his origins. One collection of such tales was the so-called Infancy Gospel of Thomas, known in antiquity as the Paidika, or...

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History of Art

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 2

Centeno Silvia A., Kennedy Nora, Manuels Marijn, Schorsch Deborah, Stone Richard E., Sun Zhixin Jason, Wypyski Mark T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204391, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
256 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This second volume of "Studies in Art, Science, and Technology" unites studies by scientists, curators and conservators, all of which are published here for the first time. Essays and technical notes address a variety of themes, such as connections b...

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Business & Economics

Stumbling Giant The Threats to China's Future

Beardson Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300205329, Yale University Press, June 2014
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>While dozens of recent books and articles have predicted the near-certainty of China's rise to global supremacy, this book boldly counters such widely-held assumptions. Timothy Beardson brings to light the daunting array of challenges that tod...

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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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