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Ecology

Hubbard Brook The Story of a Forest Ecosystem

Likens Gene E., Holmes Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300203646, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 187 colour illus.

For more than 50 years, the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been one of the most intensely studied landscapes on earth. This book highlights many of the important ecological findings amassed during the lo...

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Business & Economics

Hubris Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

Desai Meghnad

ISBN: PB: 9780300219494, ISBN: HB: 9780300213546, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswer...

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Contemporary Art

George Shaw My Back to Nature

Shaw George, Wiggins Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781857096033, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2016
104 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery's collection. Sha...

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History of Art

Modernism and Memory Rhoda Pritzker and the Art of Collecting

Hughes Eleanor, Collins Ian, Howard Margo, Spalding Frances, Shaw Sam, Stryker Eric

ISBN: HB: 9780300214871, Yale University Press, May 2016
208 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 224 colour illus.

This book is a glorious celebration of Rhoda Pritzker's collection of 20th-century British art, much of which has been donated to the Yale Center for British Art. Pritzker, who was born in Manchester in1914 and emigrated to the United States during t...

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Popular Science

Black Hole How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

Bartusiak Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780300219661, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all lo...

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Europe

General

Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Philosophy

Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others

Wilson David Sloan

ISBN: PB: 9780300219883, ISBN: HB: 9780300189490, Yale University Press, April 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

David Sloan Wilson, one of the world's leading evolutionists, addresses a question that has puzzled philosophers, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists for centuries: Does altruism exist naturally among the Earth's creatures? The key to understa...

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Philosophy

Most Good You Can Do How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300219869, Yale University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effe...

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Middle East

Impossibility of Palestine History, Geography, and the Road Ahead

Kamrava Mehran

ISBN: HB: 9780300215625, Yale University Press, April 2016
312 pp., 21x14 cm

The "two-state solution" is the official policy of Israel, the United States, the United Nations, and the Palestinian Authority alike. However, international relations scholar Mehran Kamrava argues that Israel's "state-building" process has never ris...

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America

Mourning Lincoln

Hodes Martha

ISBN: PB: 9780300219753, ISBN: HB: 9780300195804, Yale University Press, April 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The news of Abraham Lincoln's assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in new...

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