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Hubert Humphrey The Conscience of the Country

Offner Arnold A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222395, Yale University Press, August 2018
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked by biographers. His career encompassed three well?known high points: the civ...

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Jewish Studies

Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings

Breuer Edward, Sorkin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300229028, Yale University Press, July 2018
560 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works – such as his groundbreaking "Jerusalem" – which have been duly tran...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Losing Control The Emerging Threats to Western Prosperity

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236941, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In this vividly written and compellingly argued book, economist Stephen D. King suggests that the decades ahead will see a major redistribution of wealth and power across the globe that will force consumers in the United States and Europe to stop liv...

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Contemporary Art

Josef Albers Interaction

Liesbrock Heinz, Growe Ulrike, Albers Anni, Beggs Michael, Danilowitz Brenda, Darwent Charles, Judd Donald, Pelkonen Eeva-Liisa, Redensek Jeannette, Zeniuk Jerry

ISBN: HB: 9780300240832, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 140 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

"Only appearances are not deceiving" – Josef Albers Josef Albers (1888-1976) was one of the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism: he was an extraordinary teacher, writer, painter, and color theorist, who is best known for the "Homages to the S...

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Business & Economics

Financial Decision-Making for Engineers

Drummond Colin K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192186, Yale University Press, July 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 85 black&white illus.

For engineers with little or no business background this book provides the financial decision-making skills necessary for a management career. Based on materials used by students in a Masters of Engineering and Management program at Case Western Rese...

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History of Art

My Soul Has Grown Deep Black Art from the American South

Griffey Randall, Peck Amelia, Pinckney Darryl

ISBN: HB: 9781588396099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
240 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

A celebration of contemporary art by self-taught Black Southern artists. This book examines the art-historical significance of a major group of self-taught artists from the American South. "My Soul Has Grown Deep" features works by Black painters an...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

When the Money Runs Out The End of Western Affluence

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236934, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval.

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Contemporary Art

Ed Ruscha Course of Empire

Riopelle Christopher, McCarthy Tom, Herrmann Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.

Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...

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America

General

Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Flores Lori A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...

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Philosophy

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes

Kant Immanuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300227437, Yale University Press, July 2018
144 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...

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