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History of Art

How to Read Medieval Art

Stein Wendy A.

ISBN: PB: 9781588395979, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
136 pp., 26.5x20.5 cm, 141 colour illus.

An enlightening, accessible guide to understanding and appreciating European art from the Middle Ages How to Read Medieval Art introduces the art of the European Middle Ages through 50 notable examples from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, which...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Henry V The Conscience of a King

Vale Malcolm

ISBN: HB: 9780300148732, Yale University Press, September 2016
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters and his subjects' welfare Shakespeare's centuries-old portrayal of Henry V established the king's reputa...

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Europe

Military

Hitler's Compromises Coercion and Consensus in Nazi Germany

Stoltzfus Nathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217506, Yale University Press, September 2016
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A comprehensive and eye-opening examination of Hitler's regime, revealing the numerous strategic compromises he made in order to manage dissent History has focused on Hitler's use of charisma and terror, asserting that the dictator made few concessio...

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Nature

Hawthorn The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

Vaughn Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300219876, Yale University Press, June 2016
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural his...

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Europe

Hitler's Berlin Abused City

Friedrich Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300219739, ISBN: HB: 9780300166705, Yale University Press, June 2016
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

From his first visit to Berlin in 1916, Hitler was preoccupied and fascinated by Germany's great capital city. In this vivid and entirely new account of Hitler's relationship with Berlin, Thomas Friedrich explores how Hitler identified with the city,...

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Music

Hatred of Music

Quignard Pascal, Amos Matthew, Ronnback Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Catalogue Raisonne

Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos, Spronk Ron, Hoogstede Luuk

ISBN: HB: 9780300220148, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2016
500 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have b...

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History of Art

Hogarth's Legacy

Roman Cynthia Ellen, Paulson Ronald, Mainardi Patricia, Fordham Douglas, Maidment Brian, Hardy Dominic, Printy Mark, Phillips Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300215618, Yale University Press, May 2016
272 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 75 colour illus., 125 black&white illus.

The legacy of graphic artist William Hogarth (1697-1764) remains so emphatic that even his last name has evolved into a common vernacular term referring to his characteristically scathing form of satire. Featuring rarely seen images and written contr...

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Europe

Hope Springs Eternal French Bondholders and the Repudiation of Russian Sovereign Debt

Oosterlinck Kim, Bulger Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300190915, Yale University Press, May 2016
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In 1918, the Soviet revolutionary government repudiated the Tsarist regime's sovereign debt, triggering one of the biggest sovereign defaults ever. Yet the price of Russian bonds remained high for years. Combing French archival records, Kim Oosterlin...

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Ecology

Hubbard Brook The Story of a Forest Ecosystem

Likens Gene E., Holmes Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300203646, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 187 colour illus.

For more than 50 years, the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has been one of the most intensely studied landscapes on earth. This book highlights many of the important ecological findings amassed during the lo...

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