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Medieval

Late Medieval English Church Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome

Bernard G. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197129, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian G. W. Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and g...

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Military

Literary Spy The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence

Lathrop Charles E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300203882, Yale University Press, June 2013
496 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.

"The Literary Spy" provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annota...

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Biography & Memoires

Livingstone

Jeal Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300191004, Yale University Press, February 2013
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to find Victoria Falls and the source of the Congo River. In this exciting new edition, Jeal draws on...

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Psychology

Life is with Others

Cohen Donald J., Martin Andres, King Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194593, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

One of the most influential child psychiatrists of the twentieth century, Donald J. Cohen (1940-2001) made groundbreaking contributions to the study of autism and developmental disabilities, Tourette's syndrome, developmental psychopathology, child p...

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Philosophy

Love A History

May Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300187748, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Love – unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting – is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Si...

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General

Losing It In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain...

Miller William Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188233, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the opening pages of this irresistible book, William Ian Miller warns, "the general themes... may strike some as glum and grim". Yet humour leavens each page as he confronts old age, its humiliations, and its undeniable hardships. Taking an enti...

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Biography & Memoires

Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism, and Counterculture

Harrod Tanya

ISBN: HB: 9780300100167, Yale University Press, September 2012
380 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 30 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Gradua...

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Philosophy

Little Histories

Little History of Philosophy

Warburton Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780300187793, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them...

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History of Art

Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art

Clarke Jay A., Barringer Tim, Bermingham Ann, Broadway Mary, Blayney Brown David, Griffiths Antony, Lyles Anne, Noon Patrick, Paisley Leslie, Rauser Amelia F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...

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Military

World

Limits of Detente The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973

Daigle Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780300167139, Yale University Press, July 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest between Arabs and Israelis,...

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