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Edvard Munch Between the Clock and the Bed

Garrels Gary, Steihaug Jon-Ove, Wagstaff Sheena, Berman Patricia, Haskell Caitlin, Morehead Allison, Shiff Richard, Stein Mille, Ove Knausgaard Karl

ISBN: HB: 9781588396235, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2017
256 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 120 colour illus.

A penetrating reassessment of Munch's memorable painting and profound artistic legacy. This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Followi...

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Astronomy

Mapping the Heavens The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos

Natarajan Priyamvada

ISBN: PB: 9780300227031, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.

This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at...

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Law

Criterion for Distinguishing Legal Opinions from Judicial Rulings and the Administrative Acts of Judges and Rulers

Al-Qarafi Shihab al-Din, Fadel Mohammad H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191158, Yale University Press, July 2017
352 pp., 21x14 cm

The first and much-needed English translation of a thirteenth-century text that shaped the development of Islamic law in the late middle ages. Scholars of Islamic law can find few English language translations of foundational Islamic legal texts, pa...

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History of Art

Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225716, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2017
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 430 colour and black&white illus.

Groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art, p...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Jane Austen A Brief Life

Stafford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300232219, Yale University Press, July 2017
184 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every devoted reader feels that, in some way, they know Jane Austen. But how can we make sense of her extraordinary achievements? At a time when most women received so little formal education and none could obtain a place at university, how did Auste...

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Criminology

Anatomy of Malice The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals

Dimsdale Joel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226935, Yale University Press, July 2017
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using ex...

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Europe

Liberty or Death The French Revolution

McPhee Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300228694, Yale University Press, July 2017
488 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 40 colour illus.

The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a li...

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History of Art

Gauguin Artist as Alchemist

Bernardi Claire, Cahn Isabelle, Ferlier Ophelie, Gamboni Dario, Groom Gloria, Perelman Allison, Stratis Harriet

ISBN: HB: 9780300217018, Yale University Press, A+D Series, July 2017
320 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 404 colour illus.

An unprecedented exploration of Gauguin's works in various media, from works on paper to clay and furniture. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spann...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 4: 1994-2004

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300225051, Yale University Press, June 2017
480 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 420 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

The fourth volume of the "John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne" comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibili...

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History of Art

Giovanni da Rimini Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints

Koopstra Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781857096224, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2017
64 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 35 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's "Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints" (c. 13001305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail o...

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