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Literary Criticism

Humanist Comedy

Welsh Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780300197518, Yale University Press, July 2014
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and...

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Ecology

Hemlock A Forest Giant on the Edge

Foster David R., D'Amato Anthony, Baiser Benjamin, Ellison Aaron M., Foster David, Orwig David, Oswald Wyatt, Plotkin Audrey Barker, Thompson Jonathan, Long Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300179385, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 69 black&white illus.

The Eastern Hemlock, massive and majestic, has played a unique role in structuring northeastern American forest environments, from Nova Scotia to Wisconsin and through the Appalachian Mountains to North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. A "foundation...

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History of Art

How to Read Oceanic Art

Kjellgren Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300204292, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2014
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Art from Oceania, the region encompassing the islands of the central and south Pacific, spans hundreds of distinct artistic processes, formats and mediums. Many people's exposure to Oceanic art comes through its influence on the work of European arti...

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Europe

Philosophy

Hitler's Philosophers

Sherratt Yvonne

ISBN: PB: 9780300205473, Yale University Press, April 2014
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader", and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt explores Hi...

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Africa

History of South Africa

Thompson Leonard, Berat Lynn

ISBN: PB: 9780300189353, Yale University Press, February 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Lynn Berat updates this classic text with a new chapter chronicling the first presidential term of Mbeki and ending with the celebrations...

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Biography & Memoires

Hooligan's Return A Memoir

Manea Norman, Jianu Angela

ISBN: PB: 9780300197808, Yale University Press, February 2014
400 pp., 21x14 cm

At the centre of "The Hooligan's Return" is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative w...

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Law

Hollow Justice A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States

Wilkins David E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119268, Yale University Press, November 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination r...

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Architecture

Houses of Louis Kahn

Marcus George H., Whitaker William

ISBN: HB: 9780300171181, Yale University Press, November 2013
280 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the...

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America

Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

Herman Daniel Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198263, Yale University Press, October 2013
384 pp., 23.9x15.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s, historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends...

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History of Art

Design

History of Design Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000

Kirkham Pat, Weber Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300196146, Yale University Press, October 2013
704 pp., 30x24.8 cm, 760 colour and black&white illus.

Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from...

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