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Military

Losing Small Wars British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars

Ledwidge Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300227512, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall mili...

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Architecture

Landscapes of Modern Architecture Wright, Mies, Neutra, Aalto, Barragan

Treib Marc

ISBN: HB: 9780300208412, Yale University Press, February 2017
272 pp., 24.1x26.7 cm, 126 colour illus., 76 black&white illus.

An authoritative study of the interrelationship between modern architecture, landscape, and site strategy as viewed through the work of five prominent architects Modern architects are often condemned for a seeming disregard of site considerations suc...

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Philosophy

Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence With Selections from the Correspondence with Ernst, Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels

Leibniz Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm, Arnauld Antoine, Voss Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300206531, Yale University Press, February 2017
472 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In this critical edition, Leibniz submits his metaphysics of substance and form, concomitance and expression, freedom and necessity to the searching Socratic interrogation of Arnauld In this critical edition, Stephen Voss establishes the text of the...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Ancient World

Lost World of Byzantium

Harris Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300223538, Yale University Press, September 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world. Jonathan Harris, a leading scholar of Byzantium, eschews the usual run-through of emp...

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Military

Lusitania The Cultural History of a Catastrophe

Jasper Willi, Spencer Stewart

ISBN: HB: 9780300221381, Yale University Press, September 2016
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 35 black&white illus.

A fascinating reassessment of a turning point in the First World War, revealing its role in shaping the German psyche On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people...

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General

Land is Full Addressing Overpopulation in Israel

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300216882, Yale University Press, September 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

An assessment of how Israel's extraordinary population growth undermines the country's environment, social equity, and quality of life – and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel's population has increased from one to e...

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General

Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality

Holton M. Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...

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Literary Criticism

Life and Work Writers, Readers, and the Conversations Between Them

Parks Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300215366, Yale University Press, July 2016
328 pp., 21x14 cm

Acclaimed novelist and critic Tim Parks has long been fascinated by the complicated relationship between an author's life and work. Dissatisfied with the dominant modes of reading he encountered, he began exploring the underlying values and patterns...

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