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Literary Criticism

Charand-O Parand Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909

Dehkhoda Ali Akbar, Afary Janet, Perry John R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197990, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, t...

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Christianity

Spiritual Defiance Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Meyers Robin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219814, ISBN: HB: 9780300203523, Yale University Press, May 2016
168 pp., 21x14 cm

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the c...

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Political Science

Middle East

Unfinished Revolutions Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia After the Arab Spring

Fraihat Ibrahim

ISBN: HB: 9780300215632, Yale University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Post-revolution states often find that once dictators have been deposed, other problems arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war. A respected commentator on Middle Eastern politics, Ibrahim Fraihat examines three countries gr...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Catalogue Raisonne

Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos, Spronk Ron, Hoogstede Luuk

ISBN: HB: 9780300220148, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
500 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have b...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Stalin New Biography of a Dictator

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Favorov Nora Seligman

ISBN: PB: 9780300219784, Yale University Press, May 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Milli...

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Literary Criticism

Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 19 Biographical Writings: Soldiers, Scholars, and Friends

Johnson Samuel, Brack O. M., DeMaria Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300210958, Yale University Press, May 2016
672 pp., 22.2x14.3 cm

Well before publishing the "Lives of the Poets", Samuel Johnson was an accomplished biographer, having written the lives of numerous scholars, scientists, philosophers, critics, and theologians (including Peter Burnham, Sir Thomas Browne, and Confuci...

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World

Romans and Their World A Short Introduction

Campbell Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300220261, Yale University Press, May 2016
304 pp., 22.6x14.6 cm, 42 black&white illus., 10 maps, 5 plans

This one-volume history of the Roman world begins with the early years of the republic and carries the story nearly a thousand years forward to 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian Campbell, respected scholar...

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History of Art

Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print

Sancho Lobis Victoria, Warren Maureen

ISBN: HB: 9780300218824, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2016
112 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 65 colour illus.

In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radica...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Leonard Bernstein

Shawn Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Legacy

Roman Cynthia Ellen, Paulson Ronald, Mainardi Patricia, Fordham Douglas, Maidment Brian, Hardy Dominic, Printy Mark, Phillips Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300215618, Yale University Press, May 2016
272 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 75 colour illus., 125 black&white illus.

The legacy of graphic artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains so emphatic that even his last name has evolved into a common vernacular term referring to his characteristically scathing form of satire. Featuring rarely seen images and written contr...

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