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Culture Studies

Too Much to Know Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Blair Ann M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165395, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 black&white illus.

The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of...

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Education

For the Common Good Principles of American Academic Freedom

Finkin Matthew W., Post Robert C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177527, ISBN: HB: 9780300143546, Yale University Press, October 2011
272 pp., 21x14 cm

Debates about academic freedom have become increasingly fierce and frequent. Legislative efforts to regulate American professors proliferate across the nation. Although most American scholars desire to protect academic freedom, they have only a vague...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Edward II

Phillips Seymour

ISBN: PB: 9780300178029, Yale University Press, October 2011
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Edward II (1284-1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and calumny since it. Conventionally viewed as worthless, incapable of sustained policy, and significant only for his spora...

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Law

Why X Matters

Why the Constitution Matters

Tushnet Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300150377, Yale University Press, October 2011
208 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

<p>In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but b...

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Biography & Memoires

Middle East

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England

Turner Ralph V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178203, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two so...

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Architecture

Canterbury Cathedral Priory in Age of Becket

Fergusson Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300175691, Yale University Press, October 2011
288 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This fascinating book recounts the extensive building programme that took place at Canterbury Cathedral Priory, England, from 1153 to 1167, during the time when Thomas Becket served as Royal Chancellor and then as archbishop of Canterbury. Mastermind...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: North and Bristol Buildings of England

Foyle Andrew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126587, Yale University Press, October 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

William Nicholson Catalogue Raisonne of the Oil Paintings

Reed Patricia, Baron Wendy, James Merlin

ISBN: HB: 9780300170542, Yale University Press, October 2011
672 pp., 28.4x26.4 cm, 640 colour reproductions, 90 black&white illus.

William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. Nicholson made his...

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History of Art

New Painting of the 1860s Between the Pre-raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

Staley Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300175677, Yale University Press, October 2011
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 200 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art – the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. This book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early...

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