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History of Art

Art of Peales in Philadelphia Museum of Art Adaptations and Innovations

Soltis Carol Eaton

ISBN: HB: 9780300229363, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 225 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America's first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of...

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History

Artisanal Enlightenment Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

Bertucci Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300227413, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists,...

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Popular Science

Astronomy

Aliens Among Us How Invasive Species are Transforming the Planet and Ourselves

Leslie Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300208900, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads readers on adventures physical and philosophical as he explore...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Amos A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Eidevall Goran

ISBN: HB: 9780300178784, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

As part of the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Amos has been studied for more than two thousand years. This much-needed new edition includes an updated English translation of the Hebrew text and an insightful commentary. While previous scholarship speculat...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Artists in Exile Expressions of Loss and Hope

Josenhans Frauke V., Bozovic Marijeta, Koerner Joseph Leo, Luke Megan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300225709, Yale University Press, November 2017
272 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 174 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This timely book offers a wide-ranging and beautifully illustrated study of exiled artists from the 19th century through the present day, with notable attention to individuals who have often been relegated to the margins of publications on exile in a...

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Ancient World

Antiquity Matters

Raphael Frederic

ISBN: HB: 9780300215373, Yale University Press, November 2017
376 pp., 21x14 cm

This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition t...

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Political Science

Argument Open to All Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century

Levinson Sanford

ISBN: PB: 9780300230666, ISBN: HB: 9780300199598, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In "An Argument Open to All", renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America's most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us...

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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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America

American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Madley Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...

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America

American West A New Interpretive History

Hine Robert V., Faragher John Mack, Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185171, Yale University Press, October 2017
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 228 black&white illus.

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it p...

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