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Christianity

Raised on Christian Milk Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity

Penniman John David

ISBN: HB: 9780300222760, Yale University Press, August 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity. Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the symbolic importance of food in the early Roman world in an enga...

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Contemporary Art

Lumia Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light

Orgeman Keely, Turrell James, Borgen Maibritt, DeBlock Jason, Snow Carol, Zinman Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300215182, Yale University Press, August 2017
172 pp., 27.3x23.5 cm, 161 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

A long-overdue publication that restores Wilfred to the art-historical canon "Lumia" presents a long-overdue reevaluation of the groundbreaking artist Thomas Wilfred (1889-1968), whose unprecedented works prefigured light art in America. As early as...

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Europe

Conquest of Death Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State

Lockwood Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300217063, Yale University Press, August 2017
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner. In his fascinating debut, Matthew Lockwood explores the history of crime, homicide, and suicide in England over four centuries through the office of...

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Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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Poetry

Readings in Contemporary Poetry An Anthology

Katz Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780300230017, Yale University Press, August 2017
312 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Aethelred The Unready

Roach Levi

ISBN: PB: 9780300229721, Yale University Press, August 2017
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

<p>An imaginative reassessment of Aethelred "the Unready", one of medieval England's most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Aethelred "the Unready" (978-1016) has long been considered to be ins...

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Europe

Gulag Letters

Formakov Arsenii, Johnson Emily D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209310, Yale University Press, August 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

A poignant collection of letters written by the Latvian poet, novelist, and newspaper editor Arsenii Formakov while interned in Soviet labor camps. Emily Johnson has translated and edited a fascinating collection of letters written by Arsenii Formak...

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Astronomy

Popular Science

Einstein's Unfinished Symphony The Story of a Gamble, Two Black Holes, and a New Age of Astronomy

Bartusiak Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780300223392, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

An updated classic that recounts the long hunt for Einstein's predicted gravitational waves – and celebrates their recent discovery. In February 2016, astronomers announced that they had verified the last remaining prediction of Einstein's general t...

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Earth Sciences

Political Science

Elements of Power Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

Abraham David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226904, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet...

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Literary Criticism

Restless Secularism Modernism and the Religious Inheritance

Mutter Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300221732, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a backgrou...

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