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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

David The Divided Heart

Wolpe David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230741, ISBN: HB: 9780300188783, Yale University Press, November 2017
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Of all the figures in the Bible, David arguably stands out as the most perplexing and enigmatic. He was many things: a warrior who subdued Goliath and the Philistines; a king who united a nation; a poet who created beautiful, sensitive verse; a loyal...

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General

Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded

Dikec Mustafa

ISBN: HB: 9780300214949, Yale University Press, November 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 colour illus.

In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikec shows how these revo...

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Biography & Memoires

Performing Arts

Barbra Streisand Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power

Gabler Neal

ISBN: PB: 9780300230611, Yale University Press, November 2017
296 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age". Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a p...

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Performing Arts

Utility

Schwend Emily, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300224429, Yale University Press, November 2017
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend's powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her...

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Business & Economics

Law

Future of Law and Economics Essays in Reform and Recollection

Calabresi Guido

ISBN: PB: 9780300230529, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

In a concise, compelling argument, one of the founders and most influential advocates of the law and economics movement divides the subject into two separate areas, which he identifies with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill. The first, Benthamite,...

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America

Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

Dallam Melillo Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...

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History of Art

Michelangelo Divine Draftsman and Designer

Bambach Carmen C., Barry Claire, Caglioti Francesco, Cuperi Walter, Elam Caroline, McDonald Mark, Marongiu Marcella, Mussolin Mauro, Rinaldi Furio, Zanchettin Vitale

ISBN: HB: 9781588396372, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2017
400 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus.

The Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was especially celebrated for his disegno, a term that embraces both drawing and conceptual design. Featuring more than 200 drawings as well as paintings, sculpture, and architectural...

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Political Science

Democratic Faith Essays on Democratic Citizenship

Sniderman Paul M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197099, Yale University Press, November 2017
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters' failings – their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is a deeper mista...

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America

Political Science

Progressives' Century Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State

Ackerman Bruce A., Engel Stephen M., Skowronek Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230499, Yale University Press, November 2017
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefined the playing field for conservatives and liberals alike. During the 1912 presidential campaign, Progressivism emerged as an alternative to what was then considered an outmoded system of government....

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Anthropology

Big and Small A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies

Vallone Lynne

ISBN: HB: 9780300228861, Yale University Press, November 2017
360 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies. In this analytical tour-de-force, she explores bodily size difference – particularly unusual bodies, big and small – as an overlooked yet crucial...

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