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Fiction

Black Envelope

Manea Norman, Camiller Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300182941, Yale University Press, May 2012
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death...

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History of Art

Berthe Morisot

Mathieu Marianne

ISBN: PB: 9780300182019, Yale University Press, April 2012
264 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 200 colour illus.

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a woman of extraordinary talent who carved for herself a career within the art world of nineteenth-century Paris. She was one of only a handful of women who exhibited with both the Paris Salon and the influential and in...

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Ecology

Breaking the Logjam Environmental Protection That Will Work

Schoenbrod David, Stewart Richard B., Wyman Katrina M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171488, ISBN: HB: 9780300149609, Yale University Press, March 2012
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presidents of both parties have fallen well short of the goals of their environmental statutes. David Schoenb...

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Contemporary Art

Baby Ikki at the Museum

Smith Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300181043, Yale University Press, March 2012
28 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 14 colour illus.

Michael Smith (b. 1951) is known for his groundbreaking work in performance art as well as his immersive mixed media installations. Since 1979, the majority of his work has centered on his extraordinarily prescient and sympathetic character, Mike. Sm...

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Photography

Berenice Abbott

Morel Gaelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300182002, Yale University Press, March 2012
240 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour illus.

The American photographer Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) is known best for her documentation of New York in the 1930s and for her efforts to gain recognition for the work of Eugene Atget in both Europe and the United States. This attractive book feature...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Boredom A Lively History

Toohey Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300181845, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 26 black&white illus.

<p>In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common an...

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America

Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Peterson Carla L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181746, Yale University Press, February 2012
446 pp., 22.5x14.7 cm, 2 maps, 36 black&white illus.

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, "Black Gotham" is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her quest to reconstruct the lives of her nineteenth-century ancestors. As she shares their stories and those of their friends, neighbours...

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Architecture

Building After Auschwitz Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust

Rosenfeld Gavriel David

ISBN: HB: 9780300169140, Yale University Press, November 2011
440 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 25 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Since the end of World War II, Jewish architects have risen to unprecedented international prominence. Whether as modernists, postmodernists, or deconstructivists, architects such as Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Louis I. Kahn, Daniel Libeskind, Richa...

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Architecture

Bertrand Goldberg Architecture of Invention

Ryan Zoe, Fisher Alison, Smith Elizabeth, Whiting Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300167047, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2011
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 140 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Bertrand Goldberg (1913-1997) was a visionary Chicago architect whose designs for housing, urban planning, and industrial design made a distinctive mark in the modern era. This handsome publication, the first to focus indepth on the entirety of Goldb...

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Ancient World

Military

Battle of Marathon

Krentz Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300177664, Yale University Press, October 2011
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this s...

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