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Steil Benn, Hinds Manuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300164589, ISBN: HB: 9780300149241, Yale University Press, April 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

In this keenly argued book, Benn Steil and Manuel Hinds offer the most powerful defence of economic liberalism since F. A. Hayek published "The Road to Serfdom" more than sixty years ago. The authors present a fascinating intellectual history of mone...

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Architecture

Modern Architecture Representation and Reality

Levine Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300145670, Yale University Press, April 2010
432 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 311 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

In this handsome book, esteemed architectural historian Neil Levine investigates for the first time the complex history of representation – the use and meaning of architectural signifiers – from the 18th to the 20th century. Using the lens of a conti...

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Biography & Memoires

My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century

Hoffman Adina

ISBN: PB: 9780300164275, Yale University Press, March 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 65 black&white illus.

Beautifully written, and composed with a novelist's eye for detail, this book tells the story of an exceptional man and the culture from which he emerged. Taha Muhammad Ali was born in 1931 in the Galilee village of Saffuriyya and was forced to flee...

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Political Science

America

Myth of American Exceptionalism

Hodgson Godfrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300164190, Yale University Press, March 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The idea that the United States is destined to spread its unique gifts of democracy and capitalism to other countries is dangerous for Americans and for the rest of the world, warns Godfrey Hodgson in this provocative book. Hodgson, a shrewd and high...

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Contemporary Art

Maurizio Cattelan Is There Life Before Death?

Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: HB: 9780300146882, Yale University Press, March 2010
128 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

The subversive, often jarringly direct sculptures of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) are acclaimed for their seemingly absurd juxtapositions and uncanny photorealism. Reflecting deep suspicions of religious and political authorities, these...

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Medieval

Medieval Heart

Webb Heather

ISBN: HB: 9780300153934, Yale University Press, March 2010
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In this debut, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities. D...

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History of Art

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism The Annenberg Collection

Bailey Colin B., Rishel Joseph J., Rosenthal Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124026, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2009
324 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 60 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The Walter and Lee Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolours, and drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art comprises one of the most remarkable groupings of avantgarde works of art from the mid-19th to the...

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Contemporary Art

Max Neuhaus

Neuhaus Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300151671, Yale University Press, November 2009
144 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 40 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

In 1977, Max Neuhaus turned a triangle of pedestrian space between 45th and 46th Streets in Times Square into an island of harmonic sound. The rich textures of that sound continue today, emanating from beneath the sidewalk grating, to anonymously rea...

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Architecture

Contemporary Art

Modern Wing Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago

Cuno James, Goldberger Paul, Rosa Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300141122, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2009
160 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 120 colour images, 20 duotone illus.

This handsome book examines the remarkable new addition to the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano and scheduled to open in May 2009. This expansion to The Art Institute of Chicago, already one of the largest museums in the country, wil...

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Contemporary Art

Muralnomad The Paradox of Wall Painting, Europe 1927-1957

Golan Romy

ISBN: HB: 9780300141535, Yale University Press, July 2009
256 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 40 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

Frequently political and part of a concerted effort by artists and patrons during the early decades of the twentieth century to address a broad public, murals and large mural-like works often had a greater visibility and larger audience than painting...

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