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Russian

Lubensky Sophia

ISBN: HB: 9780300162271, Yale University Press, February 2014
1376 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This is the most innovative, comprehensive and scholarly bilingual dictionary of Russian idioms available today. It includes close to 14,000 idioms, set expressions and sayings found in contemporary colloquial Russian and in literature from the ninet...

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Europe

Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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History of Art

Delacroix and the Matter of Finish

Kahng Eik, Gotlieb Marc, Hannoosh Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300199444, Yale University Press, February 2014
168 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 130 colour illus.

This groundbreaking publication centres on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece "The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius", published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reasses...

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Biography & Memoires

Hooligan's Return A Memoir

Manea Norman, Jianu Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780300197808, Yale University Press, February 2014
400 pp., 21x14 cm

At the centre of "The Hooligan's Return" is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative w...

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Ecology

Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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Fiction

Origin of the World

Michon Pierre, Mason Wyatt

ISBN: PB: 9780300180701, Yale University Press, February 2014
104 pp., 21x14 cm

This spare, unforgettable novel is Pierre Michon's luminous exploration of the mysteries of desire. A young teacher takes his first job in a sleepy French town. Lost in a succession of rainy days and sleepless nights, he falls under the spell of a to...

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Biochemistry

Science of Human Perfection Heredity, Health, and Human Improvement in American Biomedicine

Comfort Nathaniel C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198195, ISBN: HB: 9780300169911, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a...

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Jewish Studies

Jews and Words

Oz Amos, Oz-Salzberger Fania

ISBN: PB: 9780300205848, Yale University Press, February 2014
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Why are words so important to Jews? Novelist Amos Oz and historian Fania Oz-Salzberger roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument...

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Education

Talent Wants to Be Free Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

Lobel Orly

ISBN: HB: 9780300166279, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentaliti...

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Contemporary Art

Tony Oursler/Vox Vernacular

Busine Laurent, Gielen Denis, Oursler Tony

ISBN: HB: 9780300204483, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2014
256 pp., 22.2x29.2 cm, 190 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

American artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) gathers inspiration from the way people's desires are extended through interaction with mass media, specifically cinema, television and the internet, and creates fascinating video installations that combine word...

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