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Jewish Studies

Roads Taken The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way

Diner Hasia R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234398, ISBN: HB: 9780300178647, Yale University Press, March 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Between the late 1700s and the 1920s, nearly one-third of the world's Jews emigrated to new lands. Crossing borders and often oceans, they followed paths paved by intrepid peddlers who preceded them. This book is the first to tell the remarkable stor...

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Africa

Rwanda From Genocide to Precarious Peace

Thomson Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197396, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus., 5 figures, 2 maps

The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Sus...

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Architecture

Reassessing Rudolph

Rohan Timothy M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300225860, Yale University Press, February 2018
240 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 25 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was internationally known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph was one of the most significant American architects o...

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Christianity

Ancient World

Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians

Wheeler-Reed David

ISBN: HB: 9780300227727, Yale University Press, February 2018
208 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Challenging the long-held assumption that American values – be they Christian or secular – are based on "Judeo-Christian" norms, this provocative study compares ancient Christian discourses on marriage and sexuality with contemporary ones, maintainin...

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Military

Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Photography

Raghubir Singh Modernism on the Ganges

Fineman Mia, Mitter Partha, Chaudhuri Amit, Jhaveri Shanay

ISBN: HB: 9781588396358, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2017
224 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

Raghubir Singh (1942-1999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. His vivid, intensely hued photographs capture rural and urban India and iconic depiction...

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Architecture

Robbrecht en Daem An Architectural Anthology

Woodman Ellis, Davidts Wouter, Ockman Joan, Gerrewey Christophe van, Cicek Asli, Pattyn Chantal, Driessche Maarten van den

ISBN: HB: 9780300222470, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2017
800 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 500 colour illus.

Founded in 1975, the Robbrecht en Daem architectural firm has built an extensive and impressive portfolio – architecture and infrastructure projects, interiors and landscapes – in Belgium and across Europe. What links the diverse projects designed by...

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Christianity

Raised on Christian Milk Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity

Penniman John David

ISBN: HB: 9780300222760, Yale University Press, August 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in early Christianity. Scholar of religion John Penniman considers the symbolic importance of food in the early Roman world in an enga...

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Poetry

Readings in Contemporary Poetry An Anthology

Katz Vincent

ISBN: PB: 9780300230017, Yale University Press, August 2017
312 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four...

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Literary Criticism

Restless Secularism Modernism and the Religious Inheritance

Mutter Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780300221732, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a backgrou...

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