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Birds

Double-Crested Cormorant Plight of a Feathered Pariah

Wires Linda R., Mackay Barry Kent

ISBN: HB: 9780300187113, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expec...

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History of Art

Duchess's Shells Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages

Tobin Beth Fowkes

ISBN: HB: 9780300192230, Yale University Press, April 2014
240 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 30 colour images, 35 black&white illus.

Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural...

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Political Science

Democracy in Retreat The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

Kurlantzick Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300205800, Yale University Press, April 2014
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic – especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansi...

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History of Art

Delacroix and the Matter of Finish

Kahng Eik, Gotlieb Marc, Hannoosh Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300199444, Yale University Press, February 2014
168 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 130 colour illus.

This groundbreaking publication centres on a previously unknown variation of Eugene Delacroix's (1798-1863) dramatic masterpiece "The Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius", published here for the first time. This book offers a compelling reasses...

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Literary Criticism

Diasporas of the Mind Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History

Cheyette Bryan

ISBN: HB: 9780300093186, Yale University Press, December 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this fascinating and erudite book, Bryan Cheyette throws new light on a wide range of modern and contemporary writers – some at the heart of the canon, others more marginal – to explore the power and limitations of the diasporic imagination after...

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Fashion

Film Studies

Dressing Dangerously Dysfunctional Fashion in Film

Faiers Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300184389, Yale University Press, November 2013
320 pp., 28x24 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

When Marlene Dietrich makes her entrance in Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright, the Dior dress she wears immediately draws the viewer's attention – not because of its designer label, but owing to the dramatic blood stains ruining its stylish surface. Fa...

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Decorative Arts

Deadly Art European Crossbows, 1250-1850

Breiding Dirk H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197044, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2013
144 pp., 21.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

The advent of the crossbow more than 2,500 years ago effected dramatic changes for hunters and warriors. For centuries, it was among the most powerful and widely used handheld weapons, and its popularity endures to this day. "A Deadly Art" presents a...

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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Literary Criticism

Dream in Shakespeare From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

Garber Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9780300195439, Yale University Press, August 2013
248 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination – one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream bec...

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Literary Criticism

Divine Love Islamic Literature and the Path to God

Chittick William C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185959, Yale University Press, July 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book William C. Chittick provides a first-time look at historic Persian literature and the topic of love, which is at the heart of Islamic spiritual thought. It contains extensive Arabic and Persian material, from the Qur'an up through the tw...

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