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History of Art

Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Europe

Military

Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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Christianity

Chinese Theology Text and Context

Starr Chloe

ISBN: HB: 9780300204216, Yale University Press, September 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This major new study examines the history of Chinese theologies as they have navigated dynastic change, anti-imperialism, and the heights of Maoist propaganda In this groundbreaking and authoritative study, Chloe Starr explores key writings of Chines...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Jean Cocteau A Life

Arnaud Claude, Elkin Lauren, Mandell Charlotte

ISBN: HB: 9780300170573, Yale University Press, September 2016
1024 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocte...

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Philosophy

One World Now The Ethics of Globalization

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300196054, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 21x14 cm

"One World Now" seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential...

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History of Art

Psychology, Art, and Antifascism Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature

Rose Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780300221473, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E. H....

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Biography & Memoires

Blanche of Castile, Queen of France

Grant Lindy

ISBN: HB: 9780300219265, Yale University Press, September 2016
456 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This is the first modern scholarly biography of Blanche of Castile, whose identity has until now been subsumed in that of her son, the saintly Louis IX. A central figure in the politics of medieval Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated patron of religi...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Theo van Doesburg A New Expression of Life, Art, and Technology

Fabre Gladys

ISBN: HB: 9780300222432, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

This handsome catalogue presents the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg (1883-1931) as a nomadic propagandist on a quest for a new aesthetic that, in conjunction with contemporary science and technology, sought to reform the world. Van Doesburg was a cen...

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Computer Science & Internet

Web Style Guide Foundations of User Experience Design

Lynch Patrick J., Horton Sarah, Marcotte Ethan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211658, Yale University Press, August 2016
408 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 215 colour illus.

A classic reference book on user interface design and graphic design for web sites, updated to reflect a rapidly changing market Consistently praised as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, "Web Style Guide" has sold many thousands...

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Military

Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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