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America

Cuban Fiestas

Echevarria Roberto Gonzalez

ISBN: PB: 9780300177886, ISBN: HB: 9780300167061, Yale University Press, February 2012
376 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 17 colour illus.

In the Cuban town of Sagua la Grande, a young Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria peers out the window of his family home on the morning of the Nochebuena fiesta as preparations begin for the slaughter of a feast day pig. The author recalls "watching them at...

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Chinese

Chinese Language and Culture, Part 2 Lab Pack

Ning Cynthia Y., Montanaro John S.

ISBN: MIX MEDIA: 9780300175998, Yale University Press, January 2012
0 pp., 21.2x16.3 cm

Welcome to "Encounters", a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes...

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Chinese

Chinese Language and Culture, Part 2 Student Book

Ning Cynthia Y., Montanaro John S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300161632, Yale University Press, January 2012
384 pp., 27.2x21.3 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

Welcome to "Encounters", a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes...

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Chinese

Chinese Language and Culture, Part 2 Screenplay

Ning Cynthia Y., Montanaro John S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300175981, Yale University Press, January 2012
160 pp., 27.2x21.3 cm

Welcome to "Encounters", a groundbreaking Chinese language programme that features a dramatic series filmed entirely in China. The programme's highly communicative approach immerses learners in the Chinese language and culture through video episodes...

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History of Art

City of Gold and Mud Painting Victorian London

Marshall Nancy Rose

ISBN: HB: 9780300174465, Yale University Press, January 2012
320 pp., 27x21.7 cm, 60 colour images, 160 black&white illus.

London was the quintessential modern city of the 19th century, and its artists were the first to rise to the challenge of depicting the many facets of this new world. From the 1850s to 1900, the city underwent vast changes, resulting in rapid urbaniz...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Complicated Man The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Knew Him

Takiff Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300177688, Yale University Press, November 2011
528 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Though Bill Clinton has been out of office since 2001, public fascination with him continues unabated. Many books about Clinton have been published in recent years, but shockingly, no single-volume biography covers the full scope of Clinton's life fr...

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Europe

Counter-Revolution The Second Civil War and Its Origins, 1646-1648

Ashton Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300184075, Yale University Press, November 2011
552 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

While much has been written on the subject of the English Civil War, the Second Civil War has been largely neglected. Robert Ashton, author of the standard history, The English Civil War, now provides a detailed and erudite account of the origins of...

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Mathematics

California Dreaming Reforming Mathematics Education

Wilson Suzanne M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183085, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the "math wars". S...

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General

America

Culture, Capitalism, and Democracy in the New America

Brown Richard Harvey

ISBN: PB: 9780300184082, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements...

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History of Art

Closer Look Techniques of Painting

Kirby Jo

ISBN: PB: 9781857095340, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 illus.

Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. "Techniques of Painting" aims to help readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of...

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