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Political Science

Ethiopian Revolution War in the Horn of Africa

Tareke Gebru, Kagan Donald, Kagan Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9780300204148, Yale University Press, July 2013
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region...

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Contemporary Art

Experiments in Modern Realism World Making in Postwar European and American Art

Potts Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300187687, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 60 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

This major study offers a new understanding of the aethetics and politics of postwar European and American art. Questioning the widespread assumption that the most innovative practices were non-representational, it shows how a powerful realist impuls...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Edward III

Ormrod W. Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300194081, Yale University Press, April 2013
752 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Edward III (1312-1377) was the most successful European ruler of his age. Reigning for over fifty years, he achieved spectacular military triumphs and overcame grave threats to his authority, from parliamentary revolt to the Black Death. Revered by h...

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History of Art

Etruscan Art In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

De Puma Richard Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300179538, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2013
368 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 450 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

This informative and engaging book on the Museum's outstanding collection of Etruscan art also provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in central Italy from about 900 to 100 B.C. Masterpieces...

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Literary Criticism

Event of Literature

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300194135, Yale University Press, April 2013
264 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different...

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General

Business & Economics

Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight

Pachirat Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...

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History of Art

Edwardian Opulence British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Trumble Angus, Wolk Rager Andrea, Albinson A. Cassandra, Barringer Tim, Fletcher Pamela M., Hart Imogen, Mansfield Elizabeth C., Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300190250, Yale University Press, March 2013
420 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic, and artistic instability leading...

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Contemporary Art

Eva Hesse, 1965

Rosen Barry, Applin Jo, Alden Todd, Swenson Kirsten, Fisher Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196658, Yale University Press, February 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 89 colour images, 8 black&white illus.

In 1964, Eva Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle were invited by the industrialist Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt to a residency in Kettwig an der Ruhr, Germany. The following fifteen months marked a significant transformation in Hesse's practice. Eva Hesse 1...

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Travel

Empire of Ice Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

Larson Edward J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188219, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 21x14 cm, 54 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of N...

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History of Art

Eye on a Century Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

Chaffee Cathleen, Alcauskas Katherine D., Canonico Amy, Jaffee Frank Robin, Gross Jennifer R., Josten Jennifer, Luke Megan R., Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Rich Sarah K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184945, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Eye on a Century" celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists...

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