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Education

Improving Literacy in America Guidelines from Research

Morrison Frederick J., Bachman Heather J., McDonald Connor Carol

ISBN: PB: 9780300194647, Yale University Press, October 2012
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science. The various attempts to address this problem have all too often resulted in "silver bullet" solutions such as reducing class size or implementi...

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Literary Criticism

Shadow of a Great Rock A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible

Bloom Harold

ISBN: PB: 9780300187946, Yale University Press, October 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"The King James Bible" stands at "the sublime summit of literature in English", sharing the honour only with Shakespeare, Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significa...

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History of Art

Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and "Life Line"

Foster Kathleen A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185478, Yale University Press, October 2012
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 110 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"The Life Line", a thrilling scene of rescue on the high seas, firmly established Winslow Homer (1836-1910) as one of the leading American painters of his day, and one of the foremost maritime artists of all time. Combining a close analysis of Homer'...

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Literary Criticism

Flaubert's "Gueuloir" On Madame Bovary and Salammbo

Fried Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300187052, Yale University Press, October 2012
224 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Gustave Flaubert, one of the key figures in literary modernism, is famous for his determined pursuit of stylistic perfection. This notably involved the attempt to eliminate from his prose all sorts of assonances, consonances, and repetitions, in larg...

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Photography

Skogen

Adams Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300187816, Yale University Press, October 2012
100 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 46 tritone illus.

Skogen is the Swedish word for forest, and while the dense woods featured in Robert Adams' most recent series of photographs grow near his home in Oregon, the pictures evoke a wild utopia, and convey a hushed, primeval awe. In this volume, the latest...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy

Schaeper Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...

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History

Physics

Elementary Particles

Fermi Enrico, Appelquist Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Caro Close Up

Bryant Julius, Droth Martina, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300176032, Yale University Press, October 2012
250 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

With a career spanning more than sixty years, Anthony Caro (b. 1924) is one of Britain's most acclaimed and best-known sculptors. "Caro: Close Up" accompanies the first survey exhibition of his work in an American museum since his retrospective at th...

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Landscape Architecture

Design

Carscapes The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England

Morrison Kathryn A., Minnis John

ISBN: HB: 9780300187045, Yale University Press, October 2012
400 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose – drivers couldn't travel very far or very quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that has affected the archit...

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