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Performing Arts

Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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General

Remoteness and Modernity Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan

Hussain Shafqat

ISBN: HB: 9780300205558, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders o...

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Political Science

Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212693, Yale University Press, June 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Based on a series of path breaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioural economics to make a fresh argument about the l...

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Architecture

Aldo van Eyck

McCarter Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300153965, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 92 colour illus., 216 black&white illus.

Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was a Dutch architect, writer, and teacher who helped redefine Modern architecture in the second half of the 20th century. As an advocate for architecture's engagement with history, culture, climate, and the lived human expe...

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Geriatrics

Caregiving in Alzheimer's and Other Dementias

Pfeiffer Eric, Sierens Gayle

ISBN: PB: 9780300207989, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Practical. Easy to read. Comprehensive. Encouraging. Accurate. All of these words describe this indispensable book that belongs in the hands of all family members and other caretakers of people who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or othe...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Culture and the Death of God

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

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Health & Wellbeing

Hearing-Loss Guide Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families

Burkey John M., Daniels Robert L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300207651, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Although millions of people could use good advice about hearing loss, it turns out that asking is difficult, and accurate advice is hard to come by. This book directly addresses the problem: it provides useful, first-hand advice from people who have...

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America

Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic

Caute David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212327, ISBN: HB: 9780300192094, Yale University Press, June 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Rancorous and highly public disagreements between Isaiah Berlin and Isaac Deutscher escalated to the point of cruel betrayal in the mid-1960s, yet surprisingly the details of the episode have escaped historians' scrutiny. In this gripping account of...

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Business & Economics

Learning by Doing The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth

Bessen James, The Garamond Agency Inc.

ISBN: HB: 9780300195668, Yale University Press, June 2015
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Technology is constantly changing our world, leading to more efficient production. In the past, technological advancements dramatically increased wages, but during the last three decades, the median wage has remained stagnant. Many of today's machine...

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Jewish Studies

World Without Jews Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust, 1933-1945

Confino Alon

ISBN: PB: 9780300212518, ISBN: HB: 9780300188547, Yale University Press, June 2015
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this grippi...

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