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Islam

Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs

Al-Sha'rani Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn Ali

ISBN: HB: 9780300198652, Yale University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

This mirror for princes sheds light on the relationship between spiritual and political authority in early modern Egypt This guide to political behavior and expediency offers advice to Sufi shaykhs, or spiritual guides, on how to interact and negotia...

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Asia

Ascending India and its State Capacity Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy

Ganguly Sumit, Thompson William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215922, Yale University Press, February 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A comprehensive and revealing account of the ongoing struggles and instability of India's political and economic institutions India's ascent as a formidable power on the world stage and its geopolitical ramifications have received much attention in r...

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History of Art

Australia's Impressionists

Riopelle Christopher, Bonyhady Tim, Goudie Allison, Thomas Sarah, Tunnicliffe Wayne, Taylor Alex J.

ISBN: HB: 9781857096125, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2017
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 70 colour illus.

Australia's Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell. All were key players in a distinctively Australian art movement that drew on influences ranging from Whistler's subtle Noctur...

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Decorative Arts

American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago

McGoey Elizabeth, Barquist David L., Barter Judith A., Harvey Medill Higgins, Kane Patricia E., Wagner Ann, Ward Gerald W. R., Waters Deborah Dependahl, Wees Beth Carver, Bach Deborah Schmidt

ISBN: HB: 9780300222364, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2017
224 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 151 black&white illus., 196 colour illus.

The history of American silver offers invaluable insights into the economic and cultural history of the nation itself. Published here for the first time, the Art Institute of Chicago's superb collection embodies innovation and beauty from the colonia...

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Political Science

Analytics, Policy, and Governance

Ginsberg Benjamin, Hill Kathy Wagner, Bachner Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300208399, Yale University Press, February 2017
272 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The first available textbook on the rapidly growing and increasingly important field of government analytics This first textbook on the increasingly important field of government analytics provides invaluable knowledge and training for students of go...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Marglin Jessica M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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Contemporary Art

Albert Oehlen Woods Near Oehle

Thuring Reto, Oehlen Albert, Wertmuller Michael, Williams Christopher

ISBN: SET: 9780300218404, Yale University Press, January 2017
104 pp., 30.5x23.8 cm, 70 colour illus.

This multimedia boxed set presents a sweeping look at work by pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954), one of the most energetic and significant artists working today. Deeply influenced by literature, music, film, and graphic design, Oehlen...

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History of Art

Biography & Memoires

Albrecht Durer A Documentary Biography

Ashcroft Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300210842, Yale University Press, January 2017
1216 pp., 24x17 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries...

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Contemporary Art

Aleksandr Zhitomirsky Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War

Wolf Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300219180, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2017
368 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus.

The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made p...

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