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Russia's Path Toward Enlightenment Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801

Hamburg Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300113136, Yale University Press, July 2016
864 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This book, focusing on the history of religious and political thinking in early modern Russia, demonstrates that Russia's path toward enlightenment began long before Peter the Great's opening to the West. Examining a broad range of writings, G. M. Ha...

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Political Science

Presidential Government

Ginsberg Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300212068, Yale University Press, July 2016
488 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 black&white illus.

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presid...

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Literary Criticism

Life and Work Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them

Parks Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300215366, Yale University Press, July 2016
328 pp., 21x14 cm

Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths

Nielsen Trine Otte Bak

ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...

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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Political Science

Beyond Crimea The New Russian Empire

Grigas Agnia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214505, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial...

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Fiction

Orthokosta A Novel

Valtinos Thanassis, Assimakopoulos Jane, Deligiorgis Stavros, Kalyvas Stathis

ISBN: HB: 9780300209990, Yale University Press, July 2016
288 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 2 black&white maps

First published in 1994 to a storm of controversy, Thanassis Valtinos's probing novel Orthokosta defied standard interpretations of the Greek Civil War. Through the documentary-style testimonies of multiple narrators, among them the previously unhear...

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Photography

Diane Arbus In the Beginning

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220346, Yale University Press, July 2016
256 pp., 28x23.5 cm, 180 tritone illus.

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable imag...

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Political Science

Biography & Memoires

JFK and LBJ The Last Two Great Presidents

Hodgson Godfrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300219760, Yale University Press, July 2016
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

As a young White House correspondent and Washington reporter during the Kennedy and Johnson years, Godfrey Hodgson covered two presidents who could hardly have been more different. John Kennedy's wit and dashing style, his war-hero status, and his Iv...

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Literary Criticism

Little Review "Ulysses"

Joyce James, Gaipa Mark, Latham Sean, Scholes Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300181777, Yale University Press, July 2016
480 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 26 black&white, 26 colour illus.

James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed...

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