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Architecture

Gordon Bunshaft and SOM Building Corporate Modernism

Adams Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300227475, Yale University Press, October 2019
296 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 45 colour ilus., 159 black&white illus.

Gordon Bunshaft's (1909-1990) landmark 1952 design for Lever House reshaped the Manhattan skyline and elevated the reputation of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the firm where he would spend more than 40 years as a partner. Although this enigmatic...

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Political Science

Great Alignment Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump

Abramowitz Alan I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300245738, ISBN: HB: 9780300207132, Yale University Press, August 2019
216 pp., 21x14 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Alan I. Abramowitz has emerged as a leading spokesman for the view that our current political divide is not confined to a small group of elites and activists but a key feature of the American social and cultural landscape. The polarization of the pol...

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Europe

Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England

Muir Rory

ISBN: HB: 9780300244311, Yale University Press, August 2019
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 colour illus.

In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had to make a crucial decision: what should they do to make an independent living? Rory Muir weaves together the stories o...

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History of Art

Gauguin Portraits

Homburg Cornelia, Riopelle Christopher, Childs Elizabeth, Gamboni Dario, Goddard Linda, Guitton Claire, Jumeau-Lafond Jean-David, Wright Alastair

ISBN: HB: 9780300242737, Yale University Press, June 2019
260 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phase...

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History of Art

Gothic Sculpture Eloquence, Craft, and Materials

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300241433, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wid...

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Biography & Memoires

Film Studies

Groucho Marx The Comedy of Existence

Siegel Lee

ISBN: PB: 9780300244540, ISBN: HB: 9780300174458, Yale University Press, April 2019
184 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirite...

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Culture Studies

Asia

Ganges The Many Pasts of an Indian River

Sen Sudipta

ISBN: HB: 9780300119169, Yale University Press, February 2019
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.

Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river. In this unprecedented work, historian Sudipta Sen tells the story of the Ganges, from the communities that arose on its banks to t...

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General

Garland of Bones Child Runaways in India

Steinberg Jonah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222807, Yale University Press, February 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. Jonah Steinberg situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, an...

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Fiction

Guermantes Way In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3

Proust Marcel, Carter William C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186192, Yale University Press, November 2018
680 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time" is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, "The Guermantes Way", is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholar William...

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Biography & Memoires

America

George Washington The Wonder of the Age

Rhodehamel John

ISBN: PB: 9780300240207, Yale University Press, November 2018
368 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>A much-needed concise biography of America's first president. As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has establishe...

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