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Philosophy

Moses Mendelssohn Sage of Modernity

Feiner Shmuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300161755, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

The "German Socrates", Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the in...

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History

Medicine at Yale The First 200 Years

Falvey Kerry L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167306, Yale University Press, January 2011
240 pp., 30.5x24.9 cm, 350 illus.

Founded in 1810, the Yale School of Medicine was among the nation's first medical schools. Over the past 200 years it has grown and evolved to become a world-class institution for research, education, and patient care, as well as a hub of medical inn...

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Music

Mozart and the Nazis How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon

Levi Erik

ISBN: HB: 9780300123067, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Despite the apparent incompatibility between Mozart's humanitarian and cosmopolitan outlook and Nazi ideology, the Third Reich tenaciously promoted the great composer's music to further the goals of the fascist regime. In this revelatory book, Erik L...

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Contemporary Art

Michelangelo Pistoletto From One to Many, 1956-1974

Basualdo Carlos

ISBN: HB: 9780300166163, Yale University Press, November 2010
320 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 130 colour illus.

One of Europe's most influential contemporary artists, Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933) has persistently investigated and expanded the role of the spectator in art since the 1950s through painting, sculpture, and performance. His present standing...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty War, Religion, Commerce, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168082, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response...

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History of Art

Meet Rembrandt Life and Work of the Master Painter

Schwartz Gary

ISBN: PB: 9789086890576, Yale University Press, August 2010
112 pp., 21.2x14.8 cm, 85 illus.

Rembrandt was a painter and draftsman of undisputed genius, but what was he like as a person? The mystery of the moody and inspired Rembrandt continues to fascinate. Gary Schwartz tells the story of Rembrandt the man, artist, and legend in lively and...

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Christianity

Madonna of 115th Street Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950

Orsi Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300157529, Yale University Press, July 2010
360 pp., 12.7x19.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

This is a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Robert A. Orsi's classic study of popular religion in Italian Harlem. In a new preface, Orsi discusses significant shifts in the field of religious history and calls for new ways of empirically studying d...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford You're Nobody ('til Somebody Kills You)

Bedford Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300163582, Yale University Press, July 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 66 black&white illus., 175 colour illus.

Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling large-scale abstract collages that incisively examine class, race, and the gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award (nicknamed...

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Reference

Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science, and Technology, Volume 1

Bayer Andrea, Becker Lawrence, Caro Federico, Centeno Silvia A., Heywood Ann, Kargere Lucretia, Mahon Dorothy, Rizzo Adriana, Salomon Xavier F., Schorsch Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300151602, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 75 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores the impor...

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Business & Economics

Women Studies

Mother's Work How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life

Gilbert Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780300164619, Yale University Press, May 2010
240 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But...

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