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Political Science

Dictators Without Borders Power and Money in Central Asia

Cooley Alexander A., Heathershaw John

ISBN: PB: 9780300243192, Yale University Press, January 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white ilus., 11 figures

Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are dismissed as isolated and irrelevant to the outside world. But are they? This hard-hitting book argues that Central Asia is...

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Media Studies

Delayed Response The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World

Farman Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780300225679, Yale University Press, January 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.

We have always been conscious of the wait for life-changing messages, whether it be the time it takes to receive a text message from your love, for a soldier's family to learn news from the front, or for a space probe to deliver data from the far rea...

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Christianity

Dangers of Christian Practice On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin

Winner Lauren F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215823, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculat...

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Philosophy

David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society

Hume David, Coventry Angela, Valls Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300207149, Yale University Press, November 2018
408 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars explo...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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Africa

Anthropology

Dark Inheritance Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica

Newman Brooke N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225556, Yale University Press, August 2018
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileges associated with British subject status....

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Fiction

Desirable Body

Haddad Hubert, Waters Alyson

ISBN: PB: 9780300224368, Yale University Press, August 2018
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

A contemporary "Frankenstein" that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel, couched in luminous, captivating prose about a journalist, Cedric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidat...

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History of Art

Delacroix Drawings The Karen B. Cohen Collection

Dunn Ashley, Ives Colta, Shelley Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781588396808, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Known as the master of French Romanticism for his energetic paintings, Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was also a consummate draftsman. This handsome book, one of the few to explore this topic in depth, provides new insight into Delacroix's drawing prac...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Dorset Buildings of England

Hill Michael, Newman John, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300224788, Yale University Press, May 2018
864 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 128 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

Fully revised, updated, and expanded, this book offers a fresh and comprehensive account of the buildings of Dorset, one of England's best-loved and most beautiful counties. With its wonderful variety of building stones, Dorset offers visual pleasure...

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