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G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion
ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...
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On Display Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence
ISBN: HB: 9780300214000, Yale University Press, December 2015
400 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen cons...
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Ruth A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300192155, Yale University Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles...
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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
ISBN: PB: 9780300198782, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late...
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Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings The Peck Shahnama
ISBN: HB: 9780300215748, Yale University Press, December 2015
192 pp., 32.4x22.9 cm, 105 colour illus.
"Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings" presents the first comprehensive examination of a beautifully decorated yet relatively unknown manuscript of the "Shahnama" ("Book of Kings"), created in 1589-90 in the flourishing cultural center of Shiraz....
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Life After Faith The Case for Secular Humanism
ISBN: PB: 9780300216851, Yale University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 21x14 cm
Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative – how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher construc...
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Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front
ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...
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Fashion Plates 150 Years of Style
ISBN: HB: 9780300212266, Yale University Press, November 2015
440 pp., 33x28 cm, 225 colour illus.
Prior to the invention of photography, European and American magazines used colorful prints to depict the latest fashion trends. These illustrations, known as "fashion plates", conveyed the cutting-edge styles embraced by the fashion-conscious elite...
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Donald Blumberg Words and Images from the American Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300215168, Yale University Press, November 2015
140 pp., 24.5x28.6 cm, 162 duotone illus.
Words and Images from the American Media gathers over 162 images that Donald Blumberg has photographed directly from newspapers and television screens since the 1960s. In his most recent work from this series, Blumberg's photographs also include clos...
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Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death
ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.
This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...
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