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Brazil The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300216974, ISBN: HB: 9780300165609, Yale University Press, November 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Experts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the other rising behemoths Russia, India and Chi...
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Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy Mathematics in the Real World
ISBN: PB: 9780300190892, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.
In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool...
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Before the Door of God An Anthology of Devotional Poetry
ISBN: PB: 9780300216752, Yale University Press, November 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
"Before the Door of God" traces the development of devotional English-language poetry from its origins in ancient hymnody to its current twenty-first-century incarnations. The poems in this volume demonstrate not only that devotional poetry – poetry...
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Before Religion A History of a Modern Concept
ISBN: PB: 9780300216783, Yale University Press, September 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as "ancient religion". Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures; at...
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Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
ISBN: HB: 9780300192001, Yale University Press, August 2015
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Calvin Schermerhorn's provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demo...
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British Silver State Hermitage Museum Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9780300213201, Yale University Press, July 2015
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 750 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.
Despite its comparatively small size-just over 370 items, dating mainly from the 18th century-the collection of British silver in the Hermitage is renowned for its variety and quality. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, the introduction...
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Beyond the University Why Liberal Education Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300212662, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Contentious debates over the benefits – or drawbacks – of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism – often calling for more...
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Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi
ISBN: HB: 9780300203950, Yale University Press, June 2015
240 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.
A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly cr...
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Blue Yodel
ISBN: PB: 9780300210026, ISBN: HB: 9780300210033, Yale University Press, May 2015
88 pp., 21x14 cm
Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins's poetry collection, "Blue Yodel",...
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Between Action and the Unknown The Art of Kazuo Shiraga and Sadamasa Motonaga
ISBN: HB: 9780300211696, Yale University Press, April 2015
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
This comprehensive book is the first in English to examine two of the most successful and important postwar Japanese artists, Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) and Sadamasa Motonaga (1922-2011). During an 18-year engagement with the Gutai Art Association, bo...
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