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Philosophy

Adam Smith's Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments

Weinstein Jack Russell

ISBN: HB: 9780300162530, Yale University Press, October 2013
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offerin...

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History of Art

Decorative Arts

Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland A History

Carruthers Annette

ISBN: HB: 9780300195767, Yale University Press, October 2013
468 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 100 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

This authoritative book is the most detailed account to date of the Arts and Crafts movement in Scotland. Arts and Crafts ideas appeared there from the 1860s, but not until after 1890 did they emerge from artistic circles and rise to popularity among...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Ancient World

Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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Philosophy

Abandoned to Ourselves Being an Essay on the Emergence and Implications of Sociology in the Writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau...

Meyers Peter Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172058, Yale University Press, September 2013
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment – society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice – was primarily composed and animated by its most ambiv...

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History of Art

American Adversaries West and Copley in a Transatlantic World

Ballew Neff Emily, Weber Kaylin H., Berlo Janet Catherine, Clifton James, Costello Leo, Lloyd Christopher, Pierce Donna, Postle Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300196467, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 220 colour illus.

American artists and innovators Benjamin West (1738-1820) and John Singleton Copley (1738-1815) changed the way history was recorded in the 18th century and became America's first global art superstars. Initially friends but eventually bitter rivals,...

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Europe

General

Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England

Andrew Donna T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...

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Law

According to Our Hearts Rhinelander V. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family

Onwuachi-Willig Angela

ISBN: HB: 9780300166828, Yale University Press, July 2013
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.

This landmark book looks at what it means to be a multiracial couple in the United States today. "According to Our Hearts" begins with a look back at a 1925 case in which a two-month marriage ends with a man suing his wife for misrepresentation of he...

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Photography

Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door

Siegel Elizabeth, Abbott Brett, Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...

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Cartoon Art

Aesthetics A Memoir

Brunetti Ivan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184402, Yale University Press, May 2013
112 pp., 19.7x19.1 cm, 120 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age. Finding inspiration in "Spider-Man" and "Peanuts", he began crafting his own stories and...

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