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Fashion

Dance and Fashion

Steele Valerie, Davis Mary, Hill Colleen, Marra Melissa, McClendon Emma, Mears Patricia, Monden Masafumi, Rasche Adelaide, Way Elizabeth, Winestein Anna

ISBN: HB: 9780300208856, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Dress and adornment have long played an important role in the visual allure of dance, and fashion designers have often been inspired by the way dancers look. The tutus and pointe shoes of the Romantic ballerina, for example, have influenced designers...

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Christianity

Politics of Religion in Early Modern France

Bergin Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300207699, Yale University Press, October 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to...

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Current Affairs

Military

Useful Enemies When Waging Wars is More Important Than Winning Them

Keen David

ISBN: PB: 9780300205435, Yale University Press, October 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

There are currently between twenty and thirty civil wars worldwide, while at a global level the Cold War has been succeeded by a "war on drugs" and a "war on terror" that continues to rage a decade after 9/11. Why is this, when we know how destructiv...

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Contemporary Art

Full Circle Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart

Shoemaker Innis Howe, Ash Nancy, Spaulding Eliza

ISBN: PB: 9780300207972, Yale University Press, October 2014
160 pp., 27.3x24.1 cm, 195 colour illus.

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) is best known as an American painter of mid-twentieth-century Abstract Expressionism, although his work was distinct for its spiritual content and his elaborate layering of materials. His works on paper are remarkabl...

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History of Art

James Northcote, History Painting, and the Fables

Ledbury Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300208139, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.

The artistic accomplishments of James Northcote (1746-1831) have tended to be overshadowed by his role as a biographer of Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy of Arts, with whom Northcote apprenticed. Here, Mark Ledbury constructs a...

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Music

Leonard Bernstein Letters

Simeone Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780300205442, Yale University Press, October 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

<p>Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician – a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals ("West Side Story"), symphonies ("Age of Anxiety"...

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Biography & Memoires

Gandhi A Spiritual Biography

Sharma Arvind

ISBN: PB: 9780300209426, ISBN: HB: 9780300185966, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years – is self-realization, to see God face to face... All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in th...

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Psychology

Jealousy

Toohey Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300189681, Yale University Press, October 2014
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Compete, acquire, succeed, enjoy: the pressures of living in today's materialistic world seem predicated upon jealousy – the feelings of rivalry and resentment for possession of whatever the other has. But while our newspapers abound with stories of...

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History of Art

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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Poetry

Openwork Poetry and Prose

Bouchet Andre Du, Auster Paul, Rogers Hoyt

ISBN: HB: 9780300197631, Yale University Press, October 2014
328 pp., 21x14 cm

Andre du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume sets out to remedy the oversight, introducing a selection of Du Bouchet's poetry and pros...

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