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Ecology

Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River

Plater Zygmunt J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...

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Literary Criticism

International Novel

Patterson Annabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300198003, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white maps

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, appr...

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Fiction

Kreutzer Sonata The Tolstoy Family Ensemble

Katz Michael R., Tolstaya Ekaterina, Tolstoy Andrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300189940, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

A work unprecedented in world literature, this unique volume contains a new translation of Leo Tolstoy's controversial novella, "The Kreutzer Sonata", which was initially banned by Russian censors. In addition, available to English readers for the fi...

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History of Art

Treasures from India

Haidar Navina Najat

ISBN: HB: 9780300208870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2014
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

India's rich tradition of jewelled arts has produced extravagant and opulent creations that range from ornaments for every part of the body to ceremonial court objects such as boxes, daggers and thrones. Starting with the Mughal rulers of India (1526...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: South and West Buildings of England

Orbach Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780300207408, Yale University Press, November 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstandin...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Landscape Architecture

Rich Spot of Earth Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello

Hatch Peter J., Waters Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300208627, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 201 illus.

Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favoured are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under...

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Biography & Memoires

Business & Economics

Helena Rubinstein Beauty is Power

Klein Mason

ISBN: HB: 9780300195569, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965) broke free from the constraints of her 19th-century, small-town Polish Jewish background to become a cosmetics industry giant and household name. She produced and marketed the means for ordinary women to transform themse...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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History of Art

American Paintings at Harvard Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826

Stebbins Theodore E., Renn Melissa, Anderson Virginia, Blunt Hannah, Grindlay Sandra, Lowrey Carol, Moore Charlotte Emans, Moore Kevin, Orcutt Kimberly, Polemis Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300153521, Yale University Press, November 2014
656 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 554 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolours, pastels and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Por...

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