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Military

Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace

Drixler Fabian, Fleming William D., Wheeler Robert George

ISBN: PB: 9781933789033, Yale University Press, March 2015
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japan's early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizi...

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Fashion

Shaping the Body An Intimate History of the Mechanics of Underwear

Bruna Denis

ISBN: PB: 9780300204278, Yale University Press, February 2015
272 pp., 27.9x22.2 cm, 207 colour and black&white illus.

This unique, erudite and entertaining book offers fascinating insights into the tortuous transformations employed by both men and women to sculpt their figures and accommodate the ever-shifting dictates of fashion. With high design, wit and style, "S...

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Europe

Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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Contemporary Art

Strange Eggs

Oldenburg Claes, White Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300197853, Yale University Press, February 2015
56 pp., 35.6x27.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In 1957-1958, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the "Strange Egg...

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Photography

Sarah Charlesworth Stills

Witkovsky Matthew S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207767, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
64 pp., 22.2x19.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

This concise yet breathtaking book is the first publication of Sarah Charlesworth's (1947-2013) photographic series collectively entitled "Stills". Charlesworth made a name for herself as a member of the New York-based Pictures Generation artists whe...

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Political Science

Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Shapiro Ian, Clark J. C. D., Calvert Jane E., Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...

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Europe

Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order

Davies Sarah, Harris James

ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...

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Media Studies

Culture Studies

Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

Marwick Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....

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Philosophy

Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Hecht Jennifer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300209365, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew the person and ev...

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Military

Surge My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War

Mansoor Peter R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209372, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 2 maps

In February 2007, U.S. Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq, some 140,000 troops, to be joined by 20,000 additional American soldiers newly deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the...

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