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History of Art

What Art Is

Danto Arthur C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205718, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, "What Art Is challenges" the popular interpretation that art is an...

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History of Art

After Constructivism

Taylor Brandon

ISBN: HB: 9780300195774, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 97 black&white illus.

When Constructivism emerged shortly after the Russian Revolution, its central principles concerned structure and efficiency in the work of art and the nature and properties of materials. In a handsome and elegantly argued book, Brandon Taylor examine...

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World

Making of the First World War

Beckett Ian F. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300206647, ISBN: HB: 9780300162028, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twe...

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Europe

Conversion of Scandinavia Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe

Winroth Anders

ISBN: PB: 9780300205534, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In this book a MacArthur Award-winning scholar argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious co...

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World

Great War for Peace

Mulligan William

ISBN: HB: 9780300173772, Yale University Press, April 2014
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

"The war to end all wars" rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist and Nazi dictatorships emerged. Today's conventional wisdom is that...

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History of Art

Art of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910 Treasures from Korea

Woo Hyunsoo, Cho Insoo, Kim Hongkyung, Kim Woollim, Kwon So-Hyun, Moon Dong Soo, Song Unsok, Lee Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780300204124, Yale University Press, April 2014
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

"Art of the Joseon Dynasty" is the first major publication outside of Korea to survey the artistic production of the world's longest-ruling Confucian dynasty, which reigned on the Korean peninsula from 1392 to 1910. The Joseon dynasty left a substant...

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Law

Political Science

Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

Magliocca Gerard N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205824, ISBN: HB: 9780300153149, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 21.1x14.7 cm

Although Populist candidate William Jennings Bryan lost the presidential elections of 1896, 1900, and 1908, he was the most influential political figure of his era. In this astutely argued book, Gerard Magliocca explores how Bryan's effort to reach t...

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Fiction

Polonica

Trans-Atlantyk

Gombrowicz Witold, Borchardt Danuta

ISBN: PB: 9780300175301, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's...

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History of Art

Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904

Block Jane, Lee Ellen Wardwell

ISBN: HB: 9780300190847, Yale University Press, April 2014
260 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 105 colour images, 3 black&white illus.

Neo-Impressionism, the style pioneered by Georges Seurat (1859-1891), has long been associated with exquisite landscapes and intriguing scenes of urban leisure. Yet the movement's use of dotted brushwork and colour theory also produced arresting port...

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Business & Economics

Captive Audience The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age

Crawford Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300205701, Yale University Press, April 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-base...

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