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Little Review "Ulysses"

Joyce James, Gaipa Mark, Latham Sean, Scholes Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300181777, Yale University Press, July 2016
480 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 26 black&white, 26 colour illus.

James Joyce's Ulysses first appeared in print in the pages of an American avant-garde magazine, The Little Review, between 1918 and 1920. The novel many consider to be the most important literary work of the twentieth century was, at the time, deemed...

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Fiction

Love Letter in Cuneiform

Zmeskal Tomas, Zucker Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300186970, Yale University Press, May 2016
328 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomas Zmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on one family's tragic story of love and the unspoken. Josef meets his wife, Kveta, before the Second World War at a public lecture on Hittite culture. K...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Leonard Bernstein

Shawn Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...

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Biography & Memoires

Louis The French Prince Who Invaded England

Hanley Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300217452, Yale University Press, April 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 pp. black&white illus.

In 1215 a group of English barons, dissatisfied with the weak and despicable King John, decided that they needed a new monarch. They wanted a strong, experienced man, of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly,...

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Asia

Women Studies

Legal Codes and Talking Trees Indigenous Women's Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946

Jagodinsky Katrina

ISBN: HB: 9780300211689, Yale University Press, April 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Katrina Jagodinsky's enlightening history is the first to focus on indigenous women of the Southwest and Pacific Northwest and the ways they dealt with the challenges posed by the existing legal regimes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In m...

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Biography & Memoires

Life of Louis XVI

Hardman John

ISBN: HB: 9780300220421, Yale University Press, March 2016
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in the thrall of his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and...

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Philosophy

Life After Faith The Case for Secular Humanism

Kitcher Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780300216851, Yale University Press, December 2015
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative – how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher construc...

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Military

Life, Death and Growing Up on the Western Front

Fletcher Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300205381, ISBN: HB: 9780300195538, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book was inspired by the author's discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on the Western Front during the First World War. The soldier was his grandfather, and the letters had been tucked away, unread and unm...

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Fiction

Last Days of Mankind The Complete Text

Kraus Karl, Bridgham Fred, Timms Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300207675, Yale University Press, November 2015
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 8 black&white illus.

One hundred years after Austrian satirist Karl Kraus began writing his dramatic masterpiece, "The Last Days of Mankind" remains as powerfully relevant as the day it was first published. Kraus's play enacts the tragic trajectory of the First World War...

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Biography & Memoires

Letters of C. Vann Woodward

O'Brien Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300185348, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

C. Vann Woodward was one of the most prominent and respected American historians of the twentieth century. He was also a very gifted and frequent writer of letters, from his earliest days as a young student in Arkansas and Georgia to his later days a...

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