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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Moses A Human Life

Zornberg Avivah Gottlieb

ISBN: PB: 9780300251883, ISBN: HB: 9780300209624, Yale University Press, May 2020
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar. No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...

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Islam

Muslims and Citizens Islam, Politics, and the French Revolution

Coller Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780300243369, Yale University Press, April 2020
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

From the beginning, French revolutionaries imagined their transformation as a universal one that must include Muslims, Europe's most immediate neighbors. They believed in a world in which Muslims could and would be French citizens, but they disagreed...

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Contemporary Art

Making The Met, 1870-2020

Bayer Andrea, Corey Laura D.

ISBN: HB: 9781588397096, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2020
278 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 275 colour and black&white illus.

Published to celebrate the Museum's 150th anniversary, "Making The Met" examines the institution's evolution from an idea – that art can elevate anyone who has access to it – to one of the most beloved encyclopedic collections in the world. Focusing...

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Psychology

Misinformation Age How False Beliefs Spread

O'Connor Cailin, Weatherall James Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251852, Yale University Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm

Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather t...

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Nature

Biography & Memoires

Multifarious Mr. Banks From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

Musgrave Toby

ISBN: HB: 9780300223835, Yale University Press, April 2020
496 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 48 colour illus.

As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the "father of Australia", and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Josep...

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History of Art

Marie Cuttoli The Modern Thread from Miro to Man Ray

Kang Cindy

ISBN: HB: 9780300251319, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x22.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miro, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to p...

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History of Art

Material Meanings Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection

Witkovsky Matthew S., Bois Yve-Alain

ISBN: HB: 9780300250817, Yale University Press, March 2020
160 pp., 25.4x20.9 cm, 66 colour illus.

This book features 31 objects from Constance R. Caplan's noted collection of 20th- and 21st-century art, including works in a variety of media by artists such as Hans Arp, Lynda Benglis, Liz Deschenes, Claes Oldenburg, and Cy Twombly. Rather than spe...

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Psychology

General

Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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Mathematics

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Su Francis, Jackson Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300237139, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.

For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, w...

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Photography

Making a Photographer The Early Work of Ansel Adams

Senf Rebecca A., Breckenridge Barrett Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300243949, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.

One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. Although many of Adams's images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this fir...

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