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Literary Criticism

Dead from the Waist Down Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the Popular Imagination

Nuttall A. D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185263, Yale University Press, November 2011
242 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, black&white illus.

At the end of the sixteenth century, scholars and intellectuals were seen as Faustian magicians, dangerous and sexy. By the nineteenth century, they were perceived as dusty and dried up, "dead from the waist down", as Browning so wickedly put it. In...

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History of Art

Leonardo Da Vinci Painter at the Court of Milan

Syson Luke, Keith Larry, Mazzotta Antonio, Moore Ede Minna A., Nethersole Scott, Galansino Arturo, Rumberg Per

ISBN: HB: 9781857094916, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
304 pp., 32x24 cm, 190 colour illus.

This catalogue accompanies the major exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery" (London: 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012) Click to see Official Exhibition page on the National Gallery website Leonardo d...

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Gynecology

Ethics in Reproductive and Perinatal Medicine A New Framework

Strong Carson

ISBN: PB: 9780300182989, Yale University Press, November 2011
258 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Advances in reproductive and perinatal medicine have given rise to difficult ethical issues. Do all women have the right to choose whether to reproduce? What is the moral status of the fetus during various stages of gestation and what obligations do...

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Africa

Ethnic Power Mobilized Can South Africa Change?

Adam Heribert, Giliomee Hermann

ISBN: PB: 9780300184051, Yale University Press, November 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This study questions conventional wisdom about the nature and outcome of the South African conflict. Avoiding both wishful thinkiong and mere moralizing, Heribert Adam and Hermann Giliomee critically examine the applicability of such concepts as colo...

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Psychology

Analysis of the Under-Five Child

Tyson Robert L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183016, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Emotional problems in children age five to six or younger are too often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply neglected. Even for those children who do receive attention, it is frequently inadequate. To assume, however, that prelatency children are...

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Political Science

Strategies for School Equity Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society

Gittell Marilyn J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184105, Yale University Press, November 2011
270 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In the pursuit of a first-rate education for all students, America's public schools have struggled to achieve fuller racial integration and higher academic standards. Yet sharp inequities between prosperous school districts and poorer districts remai...

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Music

Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice

Vincentino Nicola, Palisca Claude V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184167, Yale University Press, November 2011
558 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was one of the most influential music theory texts of the sixteenth century. This translation by Maria Rika Maniates is the first English-language edition of Vicentino's important work. Unl...

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Architecture

Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention

Ryan Zoe, Fisher Alison, Smith Elizabeth, Whiting Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...

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Christianity

Evolution of the Gospel A New Translation of the First Gospel with Commentary and Introductory Essay

Powell J. Enoch

ISBN: PB: 9780300184143, Yale University Press, November 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Many biblical scholars believe that the Gospel of Matthew was written after those of Mark and Luke. In this controversial book, an eminent politician who is also a distinguished classical scholar refutes this idea, using textual and literary criticis...

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Literary Criticism

Virginia Woolf Becoming a Writer

Dalsimer Katherine

ISBN: PB: 9780300184099, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

By the time she was twenty-four, Virginia Woolf had suffered a series of devastating losses that later she would describe as "sledge-hammer blows", beginning with the death of her mother when she was thirteen years old and followed by those of her ha...

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