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Literary Criticism

Noeuds De Memoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture Yale French Studies, Number 118/119

Rothberg Michael, Sanyal Debarati, Silverman Max

ISBN: PB: 9780300118858, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm

Focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. This title includes essays that probe points of contact between memories and legacies of genocide, colonialism, and slav...

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Architecture

Neo-avant-garde and Postmodern Postwar Architecture in Britain and Beyond

Crinson Mark, Zimmerman Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780300166187, Yale University Press, December 2010
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.

The neo-avant-garde and postmodernism have long been understood in terms of their re-working of modernism and a narrative emphasizing rupture and new beginnings. Compelling continuities between the two, especially in postwar Britain, suggest that a n...

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Architecture

Nobody's Property Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010

Baum Kelly

ISBN: HB: 9780300149289, Yale University Press, September 2010
136 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 10 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as important a role as, if not more than, raw earth. Discussed are ni...

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Middle East

Not the Enemy Israel's Jews from Arab Lands

Shabi Rachel

ISBN: PB: 9780300167696, Yale University Press, July 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.

In this remarkable, page-turning book, Rachel Shabi lays bare the painful division within Israeli society between Ashkenazi Jews, whose families come from Eastern Europe, and Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, who come from the Arab countries of the Middle E...

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Ecology

Nature Crime How We're Getting Conservation Wrong

Duffy Rosaleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300154344, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 illus.

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory and ultimately very damaging. Analysing the workings...

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History of Art

Nineteenth Century Irish Sculpture Native Genius Reaffirmed

Murphy Paula

ISBN: HB: 9780300159097, Yale University Press, May 2010
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 250 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history of sculpture in Ireland in the nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the large public works produced during the Victorian period. The works of su...

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Reference

New Handbook of Literary Terms

Mikics David

ISBN: PB: 9780300164312, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"A New Handbook of Literary Terms" offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics' definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, and always a pleasure to read. They sketch the derivation...

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Health & Wellbeing

No More Joint Pain

Abboud Joseph A., Abboud Soo Kim

ISBN: PB: 9780300164527, ISBN: HB: 9780300111750, Yale University Press, February 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

Arthritis is a major cause of joint pain, but there are myriad others. This is the first book to provide everyday readers with a comprehensive guide to musculoskeletal disease and pain, from degenerative arthritis in the elderly to common sports inju...

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Philosophy

Natural Reflections Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

Smith Barbara Herrnstein

ISBN: HB: 9780300140347, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One of these initiatives, which Smith c...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Nahum A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Christensen Duane L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300144796, Yale University Press, October 2009
464 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, illus.

This volume represents a significant breakthrough in the study of Hebrew prosody with important implications for understanding the formation of the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Duane Christensen, a renowned biblical scholar, offers a detailed analysis...

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