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Thirty-Eight The Hurricane That Transformed New England

Long Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230673, ISBN: HB: 9780300209518, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England's most damaging weather event ever. To call it "New England's Katrina" might be to understate its power. Without warning, the storm plowed into Long Isl...

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History of Art

Drawn in Colour Degas at the Burrell Collection

Hamilton Vivien, Domercq Julien, Herring Sarah, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857096255, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
112 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

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Europe

Tiger in the Smoke Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

Nead Lynda

ISBN: HB: 9780300214604, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, "The Tiger in the Smoke" provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Brit...

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America

First Impressions A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

Weber David J., DeBuys William

ISBN: HB: 9780300215045, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the fi...

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History of Art

Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in 18th-Century Britain

Retford Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300194807, Yale University Press, October 2017
448 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697-1764) and his peers in the early 18th century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic setting...

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Fiction

Influence Peddlers

Kaddour Hedi

ISBN: PB: 9780300222883, Yale University Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural...

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Philosophy

Edge of Reason A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

Baggini Julian

ISBN: PB: 9780300228724, ISBN: HB: 9780300208238, Yale University Press, October 2017
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving – or even discussing – divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animal...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Illusion How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard

Erixon Fredrik, Weigel Bjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780300230475, ISBN: HB: 9780300217407, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious t...

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America

Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America

Reid Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...

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History of Art

Album of Artists' Drawings from Qajar Iran

Roxburgh David J., Knipe Penley, McWilliams Mary, Barnes Trent, Braxton Mycah, Collaco Gwendolyn, Dokhani Farhad, Gulkis Bronwen, Mirseyedi Sarah, Poier Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300229189, Yale University Press, October 2017
244 pp., 36.8x24.8 cm, 237 colour illus.

The Harvard Qajar Album is an outstanding compendium of nearly 150 beautiful drawings, paintings, and a print produced during the Qajar dynasty of Iran, from the late 18th to early 20th century. The wide-ranging works – spanning narrative composition...

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