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History of Art

Knowing Nature Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840

Meyers Amy R. W., Ford Lisa L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300111040, Yale University Press, January 2012
424 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 325 colour illus.

Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon, whose work has been address...

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German

Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben An Interactive German Reader for the Intermediate German Classroom

Pfrehm James

ISBN: PB: 9780300166026, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 18 black&white illus.

"Kunterbunt Und Kurz Geschrieben" is an intermediate-level German reader that can be used as either the main text in a conversation course or a supplementary text in an intermediate grammar review course. James Pfrehm's innovative approach includes t...

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Literary Criticism

Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library

Parks Stephen, Bell Alan

ISBN: HB: 9780300171853, Yale University Press, January 2012
368 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 125 colour illus.

"The Elizabethan Club of Yale University and Its Library" was first published in 1986 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Elizabethan Club. This second, greatly enlarged edition is being published in celebration of the Club's cen...

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Nature

New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England

Haines Arthur, Farnsworth Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300171549, Yale University Press, January 2012
992 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 black&white illus.

This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and non-native specie...

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Contemporary Art

Alighiero e Boetti

Godfrey Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300148756, Yale University Press, January 2012
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 120 black&white illus., 70 colour illus.

Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work,...

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French

Francophone Sub-Saharan African Literature in Global Contexts Yale French Studies, Number 120

Mabanckou Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780300118261, Yale University Press, January 2012
168 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The parameters of Francophone sub-Saharan African literature have expanded dramatically during recent years. Twentieth-century African writing was for the most part organized according to the shifting cultural, political, and social circumstances tha...

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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Law

Lawtalk The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Clapp James E., Thornburg Elizabeth G., Galanter Marc, Shapiro Fred R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300172461, Yale University Press, January 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, and the third degree. This insightful and entertai...

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Europe

Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Monter William

ISBN: HB: 9780300173277, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs...

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Anthropology

Islanders The Pacific in the Age of Empire

Thomas Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300180565, Yale University Press, January 2012
356 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. Unlike conventional accounts that emphasize confrontation and the des...

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