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America

Surge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

Lane Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300203738, Yale University Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt...

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Architecture

Orthographs The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

Yerolymbos Yiorgis, Piano Renzo, Storr Katharine, Storr Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300226812, Yale University Press, February 2017
164 pp., 26.7x36.4 cm, 64 colour illus., 119 black&white illus.

This stunning photographic essay traces the development of Renzo Piano's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, a multifunctional complex for arts, education, and entertainment opening in 2017 in Athens. Photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos finds in...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Literary Criticism

Voynich Manuscript

Clemens Raymond, Harkness Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217230, Yale University Press, February 2017
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 268 colour illus.

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle. "The Voynich Manuscript" is produced from new photographs of the entire original and accompanied by expert essays that invite anyone to understan...

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Fashion

Fake Silk The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon

Blanc Paul David

ISBN: HB: 9780300204667, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations,...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Painting 1909 Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Henri Bergson, Comics, Albert Einstein, and Anarchy

Folgarait Leonard

ISBN: HB: 9780300218015, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 22 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

In 1909, renowned artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) embarked on a series of stylistic experiments that had a dramatic effect on modern art. This book examines the ways in which Picasso's art of 1909 intertwines and engages with the larger intellectual...

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Philosophy

Book of Beginnings

Jullien Francois, Gladding Jody

ISBN: PB: 9780300223569, Yale University Press, January 2017
152 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

How can a person from a Western culture enter into a way of thinking as different as that of the Chinese? Can a person truly escape from his or her own cultural perspectives and assumptions? French philosopher Francois Jullien has throughout his care...

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History of Art

Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Baert Barbara, Bayer Andrea, Dunlop Anne, Ostrow Steven F., Pon Lisa, Postle Martin, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...

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History of Art

Raphael's Tapestries The Grotesques of Leo X

Karafel Lorraine

ISBN: HB: 9780300181999, Yale University Press, January 2017
200 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Around 1515, Raphael (1483-1520) designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Each was sumptuously woven in gold, silver, and silk, and depicted scenes from classical mythology with inventive grotesques. Now lost, these spectacular,...

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Contemporary Art

Concrete Body Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci

Archias Elise

ISBN: HB: 9780300217971, Yale University Press, January 2017
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 93 black&white illus.

Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body. Findin...

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