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History of Art

Frederic Church The Art and Science of Detail

Raab Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780300208375, Yale University Press, October 2015
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 60 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.

Frederic Church (1826-1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention...

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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Europe

Ukrainians Unexpected Nation (Fourth Edition)

Wilson Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300217254, Yale University Press, October 2015
432 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The most acute, informed, and up-to-date account available today of Ukraine and its people, now in its fourth edition.

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Greek & Latin

Learn to Read Latin

Keller Andrew, Russell Stephanie

ISBN: SET: 9780300194999, Yale University Press, October 2015
300 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" focuses on helping school and university students to acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology a...

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Fiction

Roar of Morning

Marugg Tip, Vincent Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300207644, Yale University Press, October 2015
144 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

"Tip" Marugg's "The Roar of Morning" has been widely praised as an intensely personal, often dreamlike literary masterpiece that balances Caribbean mysticism with the magical realism of Latin American fiction while reflecting the Calvinist sensibilit...

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Greek & Latin

Learn to Read Latin Workbook

Keller Andrew, Russell Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780300194968, Yale University Press, October 2015
648 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

One of the most popular Latin texts on the market, "Learn to Read Latin" focuses on helping school and university students to acquire the skills to read and appreciate the great works of Latin literature. It not only presents basic Latin morphology a...

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Music

Culture Studies

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...

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Christianity

Meister Eckhart Philosopher of Christianity

Flasch Kurt, Schindel Anne, Vanides Aaron

ISBN: HB: 9780300204865, Yale University Press, October 2015
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and posthum...

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Greek & Latin

Legends of Early Rome Authentic Latin Prose for the Beginning Student

Beyer Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300165432, Yale University Press, October 2015
144 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In this text for upper-beginner and intermediate students, Brian Beyer collects authentic Latin prose from Book I of Eutropius's Breviarium ab urbe condita, which covers Roman history from its foundation to the sack of Rome by the Gauls. Eutropius's...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's "Other Half" A Complete Catalogue of His Photographs

Yochelson Bonnie

ISBN: HB: 9780300209167, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 22.9x30.5 cm, 25 colour illus., 375 duotone, 210 black&white illus.

Danish-born Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) found success in America as a reporter for the New York Tribune, first documenting crime and later turning his eye to housing reform. As tenement living conditions became unbearable in the wake of massive immigra...

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