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History of Art

Spreading Canvas Eighteenth-Century British Marine Painting

Hughes Eleanor, Quilley Geoff, Johns Richard, Monks Sarah, Roach Catherine, Lynford Sophie, McAleer John, Merwe Pieter van der, Riding Christine

ISBN: HB: 9780300221572, Yale University Press, September 2016
312 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 312 colour illus.

Spreading Canvas takes a close look at the tradition of marine painting that flourished in 18th-century Britain. Drawing primarily on the extensive collections of the Yale Center for British Art and the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London,...

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Anthropology

Sleep in Early Modern England

Handley Sasha

ISBN: HB: 9780300220391, Yale University Press, August 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is...

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Birds

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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Poetry

Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Millay Edna St. Vincent, Jackson Timothy F., Peppe Holly

ISBN: HB: 9780300213966, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 12 black&white illus.

More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay continues to captivate new generations of readers. The twentieth-century American author was catapulted to fame after the publication of Renascence, her fi...

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History of Art

Splendor, Myth, and Vision Nudes from the Prado

Loughman Thomas J., Morris Kathleen M., Yeager-Crasselt Lara

ISBN: HB: 9780300218749, Yale University Press, June 2016
176 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 75 colour illus.

Handsomely designed and produced, this stunning book highlights sensual paintings from the Spanish royal collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Many of the featured artists were court painters under sovereigns whose tastes influenced th...

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Christianity

Spiritual Defiance Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

Meyers Robin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219814, ISBN: HB: 9780300203523, Yale University Press, May 2016
168 pp., 21x14 cm

During his thirty-year career as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has focused on renewing the church as an instrument of social change and personal transformation. In this provocative and passionate book, he explores the decline of the c...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Stalin New Biography of a Dictator

Khlevniuk Oleg V., Favorov Nora Seligman

ISBN: PB: 9780300219784, Yale University Press, May 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk's estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Milli...

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Popular Science

Education

Science Blogging The Essential Guide

Wilcox Christie, Brookshire Bethany, Goldman Jason G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197556, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-...

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Buddhism

Spirit of Tibetan Buddhism

Van Schaik Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780300198751, Yale University Press, April 2016
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A leading writer and researcher on Tibet, Sam van Schaik offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by examining its key texts, from its origins in the eighth century to teachings practiced across the world today. In addi...

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Military

Somme

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300220285, Yale University Press, March 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the battle, assigns responsibility to military and p...

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