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Contemporary Art

Bentu Chinese Artists in a Time of Turbulence and Transformation

Page Suzanne

ISBN: PB: 9780300222388, Yale University Press, August 2016
180 pp., 28.6x21 cm, 100 colour illus.

Through a detailed look at twelve contemporary Chinese artists, this fascinating book offers a fresh assessment of the creative forces at work in a country whose economic, political, and cultural climates are of widespread and enduring interest. View...

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Media Studies

Between Truth and Time A History of Soviet Central Television

Evans Christine Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780300208481, ISBN: HB: 9780300208436, Yale University Press, August 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews,...

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Political Science

Beyond Crimea The New Russian Empire

Grigas Agnia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214505, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial...

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History of Art

Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France

Dickerson III C. D., Bell Esther, Bailey Colin B., Barry Claire, Bowyer Emerson, Clifford Elise Effmann, Lanoe Frederique, Milavanovic Nicolas, Tallon Alain

ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.

In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...

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History of Art

Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting The World in the Workbench

Marshall Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300174502, Yale University Press, June 2016
380 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professiona...

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Birds

Birders of Africa History of a Network

Jacobs Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...

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Architecture

Bulldozer Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape

Ammon Francesca Russello

ISBN: HB: 9780300200683, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 79 black&white illus.

Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambiti...

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Popular Science

Black Hole How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

Bartusiak Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780300219661, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all lo...

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Biography & Memoires

Psychology

Becoming Freud The Making of Psychoanalysis

Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300219838, ISBN: HB: 9780300158663, Yale University Press, March 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Becoming Freud" is the story of the young Freud – Freud up until the age of fifty – that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life...

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Music

Bach's Major Vocal Works Music, Drama, Liturgy

Rathey Markus

ISBN: HB: 9780300217209, Yale University Press, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach's major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this concise and accessible book provides an introduction to the music and cultural conte...

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