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Christianity

Islam

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300205275, Yale University Press, April 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

<p>Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. In this accessible and thoughtful book, Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theologi...

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History of Art

Carl Andre Sculpture as Place

Raymond Yasmil, Cherix Christophe, Holmes Brooke, Katz Vincent, Perloff Marjorie, Pierre Arnauld, Rorimer Anne, Tuchman Phyllis, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300191714, Yale University Press, March 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creativ...

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History of Art

Cezanne and Modern Masterpieces of European Painting from the Pearlman Collection

DeLue Rachael Ziady

ISBN: HB: 9780300174403, Yale University Press, February 2014
304 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Manet to Modigliani showcases fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, one of the most distinguished private collections of modern art in the United States. Among the ic...

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Europe

Christianity

Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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General

Civil Disobedience An American Tradition

Perry Lewis

ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...

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Contemporary Art

Conspiracy of Images Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War

Curley John J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300188431, Yale University Press, October 2013
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 colour illus., 136 black&white illus.

In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated little, and explanatory captions were necessary to identify the dang...

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Business & Economics

Cost Disease Why Some Things Keep Getting More Expensive - and Why it's Not the Problem We Think it is

Baumol William J., Malach Monte, Pablos-Mendez Ariel, Gomory Wu Lilian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198157, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William Baumol expl...

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General

Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Young-Bruehl Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Common Faith Second Edition

Dewey John, Alexander Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...

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Architecture

Europe

City and the King Architecture and Politics in Restoration London

Stevenson Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300190229, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 23 colour images, 115 black&white illus.

The City of London is a jurisdiction whose relationship with the English monarchy has sometimes been turbulent. This fascinating book explores how architecture was used to renew and redefine a relationship essential to both parties in the wake of two...

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