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Law

Origins of Reasonable Doubt Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial

Whitman James Q.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219906, Yale University Press, February 2016
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt". But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book,...

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History of Art

On Display Henrietta Maria and the Materials of Magnificence

Griffey Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300214000, Yale University Press, December 2015
400 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 80 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

In the early modern period, rulers demonstrated their power and influence through carefully curated "display"-their presence in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France (1609-1669), queen cons...

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Literary Criticism

Oscar Wilde's Chatterton Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery

Bristow Joseph, Mitchell Rebecca N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208306, Yale University Press, September 2015
488 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

This book explores Oscar Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This innovative study combines a scholarly monograph with a textual edition of the extensive note...

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Europe

Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages

Sicard Germain, Landry Matthew, Goetzmann William N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300156485, Yale University Press, August 2015
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Germain Sicard proves that Europe's first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives fr...

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Business & Economics

Other People's Houses How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business

Taub Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300212709, ISBN: HB: 9780300168983, Yale University Press, July 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were to blame. This accessible, thoroughly researched book is Jennifer Taub's response to such unfounded c...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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Poetry

Openwork Poetry and Prose

Bouchet Andre Du, Auster Paul, Rogers Hoyt

ISBN: HB: 9780300197631, Yale University Press, October 2014
328 pp., 21x14 cm

Andre du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume sets out to remedy the oversight, introducing a selection of Du Bouchet's poetry and pros...

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History of Art

Owning the Past Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840

Guilding Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300208191, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 100 colour illus., 200 black&white illus.

In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, "Owning the Past" chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the moti...

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History of Art

Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

Barolsky Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300196696, Yale University Press, August 2014
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 colour images, 65 black&white illus.

Written in the spirit of Ovid, this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for cent...

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Performing Arts

O'Neill Transformation of Modern American Theater

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300195576, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 black&white illus.

As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August W...

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