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History of Art

Buddhist Art of Myanmar

Fraser-Lu Sylvia, Stadtner Donald M., Chain U Tun Aung, Leider Jacques, Pranke Patrick, Brown Robert, Tan Heidi, Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300209457, Yale University Press, March 2015
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collection...

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Ecology

Back to the Garden Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

McGregor James H. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197464, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden und...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948

Halperin Liora R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...

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Ecology

Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Davis Frederick Rowe

ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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History of Art

Benjamin-Constant Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism

Bondil Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300210897, Yale University Press, November 2014
400 pp., 31.1x28.6 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflec...

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Business & Economics

Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Sabin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300198973, Yale University Press, November 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the la...

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Political Science

Breaking Democracy's Spell

Dunn John

ISBN: HB: 9780300179910, Yale University Press, September 2014
160 pp., 21x14 cm

Eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government in this timely and important work. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political s...

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Culture Studies

Buddha in the Machine Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West

Williams R. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300194470, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 121 colour images, 147 black&white illus.

The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough Buildings of England

O'Brien Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300208214, Yale University Press, September 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey, one of the finest Georgian country houses in England, and the influence of the estate is widely fe...

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