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Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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History of Art

Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure

Cole Michael W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208207, Yale University Press, December 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence's City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo o...

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History of Art

Ancient Bronzes Through a Modern Lens Introductory Essays on the Study of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes

Ebbinghaus Susanne, Anderson Lisa, Bewer Francesca G., Bielfeldt Ruth, Eremin Katherine, Hemingway Sean, Lie Henry, Mattusch Carol C., Riederer Josef

ISBN: PB: 9780300207798, Yale University Press, December 2014
208 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 107 colour images, 18 black&white illus.

This publication brings together prominent art historians, conservators and scientists to discuss fresh approaches to the study of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern works of bronze. Featuring significant bronzes from the Harvard Art Museums' hol...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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Performing Arts

Like a Bomb Going Off Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia

Ross Janice, Garafola Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300207637, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Everyone has heard of George Balanchine. Few outside the USSR know of Leonid Yakobson, Balanchine's contemporary, who remained in Lenin's Russia and survived censorship during the darkest days of Stalin. Like Shostakovich, Yakobson suffered for his a...

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Military

Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

Mansoor Peter R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps

In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...

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Literary Criticism

Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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History of Art

Faces of Impressionism Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay

Shackelford George T. M., Cogeval Guy, Pludermacher Isolde, Rey Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300207736, Yale University Press, December 2014
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"Faces of Impressionism" explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world's greatest collections of Impressionist art – the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated...

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Ecology

Question of Balance Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

Nordhaus William

ISBN: PB: 9780300209396, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

As scientific and observational evidence on global warming piles up every day, questions of economic policy in this central environmental topic have taken centre stage. But as author and prominent Yale economist William Nordhaus observes, the issues...

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