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Military

Passchendaele The Untold Story

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300221213, Yale University Press, August 2016
280 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

No conflict of the Great War excites stronger emotions than the war in Flanders in the autumn of 1917, and no name better encapsulates the horror and apparent futility of the Western Front than Passchendaele. By its end there had been 275,000 Allied...

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Political Science

Plutocrats United Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223545, ISBN: HB: 9780300212457, Yale University Press, August 2016
256 pp., 23.3x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform. Campaign financing is one of today's most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right...

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History of Art

Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

Alexander Jonathan J. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...

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History of Art

Poet of Them All William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

Fairman Elisabeth R., Reid-Cunningham James

ISBN: HB: 9780300219128, Yale University Press, July 2016
240 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 365 colour illus.

Showcasing a unique and extensive private collection that is soon to be acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, "The Poet of Them All" illustrates almost one hundred of Neale and Margaret Albert's miniature books, each one intricately constructe...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Thompson Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208528, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark hi...

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Political Science

Presidential Government

Ginsberg Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300212068, Yale University Press, July 2016
488 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 black&white illus.

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presid...

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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Architecture

Pedagogy and Place 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale

Stern Robert A. M., Stamp Jimmy

ISBN: HB: 9780300211924, Yale University Press, May 2016
664 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 70 colour illus., 253 black&white illus.

Marking the centennial of the 1916 establishment of a professional program, Pedagogy and Place is the definitive text on the history of the Yale School of Architecture. Robert A. M. Stern, current dean of the school, examines its growth and change ov...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Pharaoh King of Ancient Egypt

Vandenbeusch Marie, Semet Aude, Maitland Margaret Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780300218381, Yale University Press, April 2016
176 pp., 29.2x27.3 cm, 280 colour illus.

"Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt" introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous leaders – the pharaohs – using some of the finest objects from the vast holdings of the British Museum. In an introductory...

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History of Art

Power of Prints The Legacy of William Ivins and Hyatt Mayor

Spira Freyda, Parshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781588395856, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2016
208 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Metropolitan Museum curators William M. Ivins and his protege A. Hyatt Mayor not only assembled a vast collection of prints, from Renaissance masterworks to ephemeral works, but also expanded the appreciation of prints as aesthetic objects, socio-his...

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