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Photography

Power of Pictures Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film

Goodman Susan Tumarkin, Hoffmann Jens, Lavrentiev Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207682, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 148 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist pho...

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Ancient World

Democracy's Beginning The Athenian Story

Mitchell Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215038, Yale University Press, October 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 5 maps

The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full and r...

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History of Art

Gates of the Lord The Tradition of Krishna Paintings

Ghose Madhuvanti, Ambalal Amit, Krishna Kalyan, Lyons Tryna, Shah Anita, Bachrach Emilia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214727, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture-reaching back centuries and still vital today-in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than o...

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Europe

Anglo-Saxon World

Higham Nicholas J., Ryan Martin J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216134, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 100 maps, 50 black&white illus.

The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of Engl...

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Ecology

Voices of the Wild Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes

Krause Bernie

ISBN: HB: 9780300206319, Yale University Press, October 2015
184 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Since 1968, Bernie Krause has traveled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat...

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Military

Hundred Years War A People's History

Green David

ISBN: PB: 9780300216103, ISBN: HB: 9780300134513, Yale University Press, October 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus., 5 maps

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in h...

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Europe

Dirty Old London The Victorian Fight Against Filth

Jackson Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300216110, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with 'night soil', graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this inti...

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Contemporary Art

Rachel Harrison G-L-O-R-I-A

Rutland Beau, Burton Johanna, Harrison Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780300215960, Yale University Press, September 2015
124 pp., 29.9x22.2 cm, 40 colour illus.

Linking two influential figures in American art, this fascinating catalogue explores the intersection between works by modern master Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and innovative contemporary artist Rachel Harrison (b. 1966). Taking its name from Gl...

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Photography

Warhol and Mapplethorpe Guise and Dolls

Hickson Patricia, Katz Jonathan D., Latimer Tirza True, Fremont Vincent, Myles Eileen, Makos Christopher, Pacelli Maria Luisa

ISBN: HB: 9780300214338, Yale University Press, September 2015
184 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 148 colour illus.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant work in portraiture and self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of femininity, masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original book is...

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Photography

That Day Pictures in the American West

Wilson Laura, Rohrbach John, Graybill Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300215397, Yale University Press, September 2015
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 11 colour illus., 107 duotone illus.

Renowned photographer Laura Wilson has captured the majesty, as well as the tragedy, of her home region of Texas and the wider West for more than three decades. A former assistant to Richard Avedon, she has published her work to wide acclaim over the...

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