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Henrik Ibsen The Man and the Mask

de Figueiredo Ivo

ISBN: HB: 9780300208818, Yale University Press, February 2019
704 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 colour illus., 22 black&white illus.

Henrik Ibsen (1820-1908) is arguably the most important playwright of the nineteenth century. Globally he remains the most performed playwright after Shakespeare, and "Hedda Gabler", "A Doll's House", "Peer Gynt", and "Ghosts" are all masterpieces of...

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America

Hot Protestants A History of Puritanism in England and America

Winship Michael P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126280, Yale University Press, February 2019
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that transformed the early modern world....

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Reference

How to Get Grant Money in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Folsom Raphael Brewster

ISBN: PB: 9780300217438, Yale University Press, February 2019
184 pp., 21x14 cm

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences need money to do research. This book shows them how to get it. In this accessible volume, Raphael Folsom shares proven strategies in a series of short, witty chapters. It features tips on how graduate st...

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America

History of the Future in Colonial Mexico

O'Hara Matthew D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300233933, Yale University Press, January 2019
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Going against the grain of most existing scholarship, Matthew D. O'Hara explores the archives of colonial Mexico to uncover a history of "futuremaking." While historians and historical anthropologists of Latin America have long focused on historical...

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Judaism

How Old Is the Hebrew Bible? A Linguistic, Textual, and Historical Study

Hendel Ronald, Joosten Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300234886, Yale University Press, January 2019
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

The age of the Hebrew Bible is a topic that has sparked controversy and debate in recent years. The scarcity of clear evidence allows for the possibility of many views, though these are often clouded by theological and political biases. This impressi...

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Contemporary Art

Hairy Who? 1966-1969

Nichols Thea Liberty, Goldstein Ann, Pascale Mark, Blackwell Tyler, Hull Richard, Mullen Lydia, Owens Laura, Pocock Antonia

ISBN: HB: 9780300236903, Yale University Press, October 2018
256 pp., 29.2x20.3 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.

This generously illustrated catalogue explores the history and significance of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists who transformed imagery from popular culture into highly personal works of art in a variety of media. New scholarship based o...

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Culture Studies

Haunted On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300239997, Yale University Press, October 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them Leo Braudy, a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, has won accolades for rev...

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Christianity

Holy Resilience The Bible's Traumatic Origins

Carr David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240009, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr. The Bible's ability to speak to suffering is a major reason why the sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity have retained their relevance for thousands of years. In...

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History of Art

How to Read Islamic Calligraphy

Ekhtiar Maryam D.

ISBN: PB: 9781588396303, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
156 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 141 colour illus.

"How to Read Islamic Calligraphy" explores the preeminence of the written word as a means of creative expression throughout the Islamic world. Aimed at a general audience, the book introduces all five major Islamic calligraphic script types, demonstr...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Hampshire: South The Buildings of England

O'Brien Charles, Bailey Bruce, Pevsner Nikolaus, Lloyd David W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300225037, Yale University Press, September 2018
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This volume, a companion to "Hampshire: Winchester and the North", covers the county's southern half, from the woodland and heath of the New Forest to the cities along the Solent, and from remote Saxon churches to Modernist seaside villas. The origin...

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