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Literary Criticism

Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

Dowling David

ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Ever Yours The Essential Letters

Gogh Vincent van, Jansen Leo, Luijten Hans, Bakker Nienke

ISBN: HB: 9780300209471, Yale University Press, November 2014
880 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820 in exi...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Experience of God Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Bentley Hart David

ISBN: PB: 9780300209358, Yale University Press, November 2014
376 pp., 21x14 cm

Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God, the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? Are those engaged in the debate all talking about the same thing? In this beautifu...

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Philosophy

Culture Studies

Experiments with Truth Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence

Helfenstein Josef, Newland Joseph N., Lal Vinay, Whitehurst Emilee Dawn, Wolf Eric M., Kamps Toby, Hanh Thich Nhat, Kyi Aung San Suu

ISBN: PB: 9780300208801, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi's (1869-1948) ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanyi...

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Fashion

Exposed A History of Lingerie

Hill Colleen, Steele Valerie

ISBN: HB: 9780300208863, Yale University Press, November 2014
172 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

Lingerie is a subject of enduring fascination. As the final barrier to the fully nude body, it is simultaneously modest and erotic. This compelling and eye-catching publication surveys lingerie from the mid-18th century to the present, covering a bro...

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America

Emperor of Liberty Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Cogliano Francis D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179934, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 maps

This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers a compelling reinterpretation of his attitudes and accomplishments as a statesman during America's early nationhood. Beginning with Jefferson's disastrous st...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Exit Berlin How One Family Saved Itself from Nazi Germany

Bonelli Charlotte, Bodemann Natascha, Lipstadt Deborah E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197525, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Just a week after the Kristallnacht terror in 1938, young Luzie Hatch, a German Jew, fled Berlin to resettle in New York. Her rescuer was an American-born cousin and industrialist, Arnold Hatch. Arnold spoke no German, so Luzie quickly became transla...

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Poetry

Eruv Yale Series of Younger Poets

Green Eryn

ISBN: HB: 9780300201253, Yale University Press, May 2014
96 pp., 21x14 cm

Eryn Green's "Eruv" is the latest winner of the oldest annual literary award in the United States, which originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty. Green joins an esteemed roster of past winners tha...

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Ecology

Earthmasters The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

Hamilton Clive

ISBN: PB: 9780300205213, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 milli...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish

Smith Marquard

ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...

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