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Photography

Photography's Last Century The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9781588397089, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2020
184 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 134 colour illus.

Beginning with Paul Strand's landmark "From the Viaduct" in 1916 and continuing through the present day, "Photography's Last Century" examines defining moments in the history of the medium. Featuring nearly 100 masterworks, it includes both rare and...

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Europe

Provincializing Global History Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830

Livesey James Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780300237160, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

"Provincializing Global History" explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingl...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C.

Burger Richard L., Salazar Lucy C., Seki Yuji

ISBN: PB: 9780913516300, Yale University Press, February 2020
192 pp., 24.7x17.1 cm, 121 black&white illus.

This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early...

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Photography

Proof Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz

Galassi Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300250077, Yale University Press, February 2020
272 pp., 31.7x24.8 cm, 210 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume offers an innovative perspective on the artistic processes of some of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. For decades before the advent of digital technology, the proof sheet or contact sheet was vital to the...

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Architecture

Patch Atlas Integrating Design Practices and Ecological Knowledge for Cities as Complex Systems

Marshall Victoria J., Cadenasso Mary L., McGrath Brian P., Pickett Steward T. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239935, Yale University Press, January 2020
128 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 104 colour illus.

Using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification as an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, this atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems. It brings together over a decade...

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Poetry

Poems

Dugan Alan, Fitts Dudley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246360, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm

The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan's lifetime, "Poems" examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls, house plants, love, war, religion, and the Irish. Explorations inevitably arouse feelings of aliena...

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Decorative Arts

Porcelain Pugs: A Passion The T. & T. Collection

Dumortier Claire, Habets Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300246537, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 170 colour illus.

A treasure trove for dog-lovers and porcelain enthusiasts alike, this book celebrates a collection of more than 100 porcelain pugs, most of which were designed in the mid-18th century by Johann Joaquim Kنndler, the eminent modeler in the Meissen porc...

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Jewish Studies

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880

Dash Moore Deborah, Carlebach Elisheva

ISBN: HB: 9780300190007, Yale University Press, January 2020
600 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 133 colour images, 59 black&white illus.

A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the m...

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Contemporary Art

Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion

Dion Mark, Adler Margaret C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246193, Yale University Press, January 2020
168 pp., 27.9x23.4 cm, 175 colour illus.

Renowned artist Mark Dion (b. 1961) has a deep passion for history and the natural world. His installations mine the materials of the past to level an institutional critique in the present. Evoking the grand expeditionary journals of the 19th century...

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Physics

Physics and Dance

Coates Emily, Demers Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248371, ISBN: HB: 9780300195835, Yale University Press, November 2019
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 62 black&white illus.

From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides...

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