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Ecology

High and Dry Meeting the Challenges of the World's Growing Dependence on Groundwater

Alley William M., Alley Rosemarie

ISBN: HB: 9780300220384, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An engaging call to understand and protect groundwater, the primary source of drinking water for almost half of the world's population. Groundwater is essential for drinking water and food security. It provides enormous environmental benefits by kee...

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Christianity

Holy Rus' The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia

Burgess John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222241, Yale University Press, April 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

A fascinating, vivid, and on-the-ground account of Russian Orthodoxy's resurgence. A bold experiment is taking place in Russia. After a century of being scarred by militant, atheistic communism, the Orthodox Church has become Russia's largest and mo...

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Biography & Memoires

Poetry

Hayim Nahman Bialik Poet of Hebrew

Holtzman Avner

ISBN: HB: 9780300200669, Yale University Press, March 2017
264 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

A moving inquiry into the dramatic life, epic success, and ultimate tragedy of the great Hebrew poet. By the time he was twenty-eight, Hayim Nahman Bialik was already considered the National Hebrew Poet. He had only published a single collection, bu...

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Contemporary Art

Hans Hofmann Works on Paper

Polednik Marcelle, Wilkin Karen, Greenwold Diana

ISBN: HB: 9780300223156, Yale University Press, February 2017
128 pp., 27.3x22.9 cm, 112 colour illus.

Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was an acclaimed Abstract Expressionist and one of the most influential art teachers of the 20th century. While his paintings have been the subject of many exhibitions and publications, his works on paper are comparatively li...

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Birds

House of Owls

Angell Tony

ISBN: PB: 9780300223422, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 23.5x17.8 cm, 94 black&white illus.

Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Chapman Cynthia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...

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Computer Science & Internet

Business & Economics

Humans Need Not Apply A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Kaplan Jerry

ISBN: PB: 9780300223576, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and work Selected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Economist Af...

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Architecture

Hardwick Hall A Great Old Castle of Romance

Adshead David, Taylor David, Cooper Nicholas, Cowell Ben, Garnett Oliver, Henderson Paula, Jervis Simon, Rowell Christopher, Wells-Cole Anthony, Hirst Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300218909, Yale University Press, November 2016
384 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 320 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Originally constructed in the late 16th century for the notorious Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among the National Trust's greatest architectural landmarks, with much of its original interior and ornamentation still i...

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Performing Arts

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Power and Succession in the History Plays

Lake Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300222715, Yale University Press, November 2016
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakes...

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Islam

Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God's Name Welcoming in God's Name

Siddiqui Mona

ISBN: PB: 9780300223620, Yale University Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm

<p>A groundbreaking examination of a crucial concept in Islamic thought and tradition from an author noted for her work on interfaith and intercultural dialogue Considering its prominent role in many faith traditions, surprisingly little has been wri...

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