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Islam

Britain and Islam A History from 622 to the Present Day

Pugh Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300234947, Yale University Press, August 2019
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

In this broad yet sympathetic survey – ranging from the Crusades to the modern day – Martin Pugh explores the social, political, and cultural encounters between Britain and Islam. He looks, for instance, at how reactions against the Crusades led to A...

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Ancient World

Biography & Memoires

Brutus The Noble Conspirator

Tempest Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780300246643, Yale University Press, August 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 6 maps

Conspirator and assassin, philosopher and statesman, promoter of peace and commander in war, Marcus Brutus (ca. 85-42 BC) was a controversial and enigmatic man even to those who knew him. His leading role in the murder of Julius Caesar on the Ides of...

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Media Studies

Behind the Screen Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

Roberts Sarah T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300235883, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, over 100,000 commercial content mo...

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America

Blueprint for War FDR and the Hundred Days That Mobilized America

Dunn Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300244342, ISBN: HB: 9780300203530, Yale University Press, June 2019
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus. in 8-pg insert

In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide military and moral catastrophe. Almost all the European democracies had fallen under t...

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Ecology

Breakpoint Reckoning with America's Environmental Crises

Jackson Jeremy B. C., Chapple Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780300244397, ISBN: HB: 9780300179392, Yale University Press, June 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems rava...

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History of Art

Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance

Treves Letizia, Molina Figueras Joan, Campbell Lorne, Capwell Tobias, Ackroyd Paul, Spring Marika, Herraez Vossbrink Akemi

ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.

Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...

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Military

Bletchley Park and D-Day

Kenyon David

ISBN: HB: 9780300243574, Yale University Press, May 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus., 2 maps

Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But cracking the Nazis' codes was only the start of the process. Thousands of secret intelli...

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America

Breaking White Supremacy Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300244335, Yale University Press, April 2019
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profoun...

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History of Art

Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life

Whitlum-Cooper Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9781857096439, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2019
96 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 40 colour illus.

In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two...

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History of Art

Bouguereau and America

Paul Tanya, Thomas Stanton, Zafran Eric, Hoppin Martha, Solomon-Godeau Abigail, Sawinski Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300241358, Yale University Press, February 2019
192 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 114 colour illus.

Seeking to bring Gallic sophistication and worldly elegance into their galleries and drawing rooms, wealthy Americans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries collected the work of William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) in record numbers. This fasci...

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