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Chinese Language and Culture, Part 1 Lab Pack

Ning Cynthia Y., Montanaro John S.

ISBN: MIX MEDIA: 9780300175653, Yale University Press, September 2011
0 pp., 21.2x16.3 cm

Welcome to "Encounters", a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes...

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Contemporary Art

Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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America

Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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Film Studies

Hollywood Westerns and American Myth The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy

Pippin Robert B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172065, Yale University Press, September 2011
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 14 colour images, 52 black&white illus.

In this pathbreaking book one of America's most distinguished philosophers brilliantly explores the status and authority of law and the nature of political allegiance through close readings of three classic Hollywood Westerns: Howard Hawks' "Red Rive...

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Architecture

Venice Disputed Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600

Howard Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780300176858, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 120 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and members of the public. Written...

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Literary Criticism

Pushkin's Historical Imagination

Evdokimova Svetlana

ISBN: PB: 9780300181906, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

This book explores the historical insights of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Russia's most celebrated poet and arguably its greatest thinker. Svetlana Evdokimova examines for the first time the full range of Pushkin's fictional and nonfictional writi...

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History of Art

Drawings by Rembrandt, His Students, and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection

Sutton Peter C., Robinson William W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176063, Yale University Press, August 2011
208 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Over the course of several decades, George and Maida Abrams amassed perhaps the finest private collection of Dutch Old Master drawings in the world. This catalogue presents a selection of these superb works, and explores the role of drawing in the cr...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

In Ishmael's House A History of Jews in Muslim Lands

Gilbert Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780300177985, ISBN: HB: 9780300167153, Yale University Press, August 2011
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

The relationship between Jews and Muslims has been a flashpoint that affects stability in the Middle East and has consequences around the globe. In this absorbing and eloquent book, Martin Gilbert challenges the standard media portrayal and presents...

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History of Art

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300178005, Yale University Press, August 2011
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The quality of today's literary writing arouses the strongest opinions. For novelist and critic Gabriel Josipovici, the contemporary novel in English is profoundly disappointing – a poor relation of its groundbreaking Modernist forebears. This agile...

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America

When London was Capital of America

Flavell Julie

ISBN: PB: 9780300178135, Yale University Press, August 2011
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. And in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the Geor...

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