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America

American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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Decorative Arts

American Glass The Collections at Yale

Gordon John Stuart

ISBN: HB: 9780300226690, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 190 colour illus.

Glass can be decorative or utilitarian, and its forms often reflect technological innovations and social change. Drawing on an insightful selection from the Yale University Art Gallery and other collections at Yale, "American Glass" illuminates the v...

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Reference

Writing Successful Science Proposals Third Edition

Friedland Andrew J., Folt Carol L, Mercer Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226706, Yale University Press, September 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing This fully revised edition of the authoritative guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any researcher embarking on a grant or thesis application....

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Fiction

On My Aunt's Shallow Grave White Roses Have Already Bloomed

Mitsora Maria, Moe Jacob

ISBN: PB: 9780300215762, Yale University Press, September 2018
200 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This collection assembles sixteen of Maria Mitsora's short stories in what adds up to be a retrospective of the author's work, spanning forty years. Moving across the urban netherworld of Athens to imagined Latin American towns and science-fiction dy...

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Earth Sciences

City Unseen New Visions of an Urban Planet

Seto Karen C., Reba Meredith, Sullivan Kathryn D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221695, Yale University Press, September 2018
268 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 147 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhanc...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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History of Art

Business & Economics

Hugh Lane The Art Market and the Art Museum, 1893-1915

O'Neill Morna

ISBN: HB: 9780300236583, Yale University Press, September 2018
320 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 95 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This book charts a geography of the art market and the art museum in the early 20th century through the legacy of one influential dealer. Born in Ireland, Hugh Lane (1875-1915) established himself in London in the 1890s. With little formal education...

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History of Art

George Shaw A Corner of a Foreign Field

Hallett Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300236644, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus.

Nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011, George Shaw (b. 1966) is one of Britain's leading contemporary painters, best known for his painstakingly detailed, luminous, and often elegiac representations of the British suburban landscape. Beautifully des...

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Photography

Eye on the West Photography and the Contemporary West

Miles George

ISBN: HB: 9780300232851, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 29.2x27.9 cm, 34 colour and black&white illus.

The histories of the North American West and photography have been intertwined since photography reached America. From the middle of the 19th century, images of the West have continuously played a significant role in defining the ways the region is p...

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Europe

London Cage The Secret History of Britain's World War II Interrogation Centre

Fry Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780300238655, Yale University Press, August 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Behind the locked doors of three mansions in London's exclusive Kensington Palace Gardens neighborhood, the British Secret Service established a highly secret prison in 1940: the London Cage. Here recalcitrant German prisoners of war were subjected t...

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