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Anthropology

Indigenous Visions Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas

Blackhawk Ned, Wilner Isaiah Lorado

ISBN: PB: 9780300196511, Yale University Press, March 2018
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's "The Mind of Primitive Man" challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on re...

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Landscape Architecture

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum A Guide

Silver Nathaniel, Nielsen Christina M., Riley Casey

ISBN: PB: 9780300226478, Yale University Press, March 2018
216 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 130 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This updated guide to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum charts new pathways through the beloved institution's superb collection. Gardner, a trail-blazing American who was among the most prominent patrons of her day, built a Venetian-inspired palazz...

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Contemporary Art

Inventur Art in Germany, 1943-55

Roth Lynette, Voermann Ilka

ISBN: HB: 9780300229202, Yale University Press, February 2018
430 pp., 27x22.9 cm, 308 colour and black&white illus.

As Germany went through a period of intense physical and moral stocktaking in the wake of World War II, the country's artists responded by creating highly charged works and engaging in heated debates about artistic practice and its relationship to th...

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Fiction

Influence Peddlers

Kaddour Hedi

ISBN: PB: 9780300222883, Yale University Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Gather together French colonialists, young nationalists eager for independence, and local Maghreb leaders in a small North African city of the 1920s. Bring a collection of brash American filmmakers and celebrities into the picture. Dangerous cultural...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Illusion How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard

Erixon Fredrik, Weigel Bjorn

ISBN: PB: 9780300230475, ISBN: HB: 9780300217407, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policy makers are hindering innovation-led growth Conventional wisdom holds that Western economies are on the threshold of fast-and-furious t...

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Islam

Islamism A History of Political Islam from the Fall of the Ottoman Empire to the Rise of Isis

Osman Tarek

ISBN: PB: 9780300230963, Yale University Press, October 2017
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 8 pp. black&white

A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region's primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military est...

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Europe

Military

In Nelson's Wake The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars

Davey James

ISBN: PB: 9780300228830, ISBN: HB: 9780300200652, Yale University Press, August 2017
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 colour illus., maps

The Napoleonic Wars saw Britain immersed in a conflict of unprecedented scale and intensity. With France dominant on the European mainland, the fate of the British population rested first and foremost on the Royal Navy and the thousands of individual...

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History of Art

Ivory Mirror The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

Perkinson Stephen, Speakman Naomi, Baker Katherine, Morrison Elizabeth, Solberg Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300225952, Yale University Press, August 2017
240 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 190 colour illus.

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe. We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this p...

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Political Science

Imprint of Congress

Mayhew David R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215700, Yale University Press, July 2017
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

An insightful examination of the imprint of Congress on politics and society throughout American history by a distinguished congressional scholar. A distinguished political scientist and congressional scholar offers an insightful historical analysis...

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Philosophy

In Praise of Forgetting Historical Memory and its Ironies

Rieff David

ISBN: PB: 9780300227109, Yale University Press, June 2017
160 pp., 21x14 cm

The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly abs...

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