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Jewish Studies

Bernard Berenson A Life in the Picture Trade

Cohen Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300149425, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Few would have predicted that Bernard Berenson, from a poor Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family, would rise above poverty. Yet Berenson left his crowded home near Boston's railyards and transformed himself into the world's most renowned expert on Ital...

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Middle East

Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

Raz Avi

ISBN: PB: 9780300198508, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its...

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America

Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

Torres-Rouff David Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...

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Birds

Birds of New Zealand A Photographic Guide

Scofield Paul, Stephenson Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300196825, Yale University Press, October 2013
500 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 colour illus.

New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, b...

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Europe

Belonging and Genocide Hitler's Community, 1918-1945

Kuhne Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300198287, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

No one has ever posed a satisfactory explanation for the extreme inhumanity of the Holocaust. What enabled millions of Germans to perpetrate or condone the murder of the Jews? In this illuminating book, Thomas Kuhne offers a provocative answer. In ad...

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America

Borderlines in Borderlands James Madison and the Spanish-American Frontier, 1776-1821

Stagg J. C. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205541, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands...

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Contemporary Art

Barbara Chase-Riboud The Malcolm X Steles

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300196405, Yale University Press, August 2013
120 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 colour illus.

Born in Philadelphia and living and working between Paris and Rome, Barbara Chase-Riboud is an internationally celebrated visual artist, novelist and poet. This important publication focuses on her monumental series of sculptures dedicated to the ass...

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History of Art

Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Architecture

Building Seagram

Lambert Phyllis

ISBN: HB: 9780300167672, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 52 colour images, 141 black&white illus.

The Seagram Building rises up over New York's Park Avenue with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distil...

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Current Affairs

Battle for the Arab Spring Revolution, Counter-revolution and the Making of a New Era

Noueihed Lin, Warren Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300194159, Yale University Press, February 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

On December 17, 2010, a Tunisian man set himself on fire after the police seized the vegetable cart by which he earned his living. This single act by an unknown figure sent a wave of revolt through the Arab world. It led to the overthrow of governmen...

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