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Sex, Money and Personal Character in Eighteenth-Century British Politics

Morris Marilyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300208450, Yale University Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus.

How, and why, did the Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the private lives and public character of its political leaders? Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and gossip spread...

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Ecology

Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River

Plater Zygmunt J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: South and West Buildings of England

Orbach Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780300207408, Yale University Press, November 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 70 black&white illus.

This expertly revised and enlarged survey is the perfect architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor and the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstandin...

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Performing Arts

Still

Silverman Jen, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300206357, Yale University Press, November 2014
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considerin...

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History of Art

Strokes of Genius Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Goldman Jeanette, Schwed Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780300207774, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2014
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This catalogue presents more than fifty masterful Italian drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven G...

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Fiction

Suspended Sentences Three Novellas

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300198058, Yale University Press, November 2014
232 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Although originally published separately, Patrick Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of ot...

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History of Art

Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

Gombrich E. H., MacGregor Neil, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300210040, Yale University Press, October 2014
96 pp., 22.5x20 cm, 60 colour illus.

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented – or ignored – by artists...

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History of Art

Samuel F. B. Morse's "Gallery of the Louvre" and the Art of Invention

Antoine Jean-Philippe, Bellion Wendy, Bjelajac David, Brownlee Peter John, DeLue Rachael Ziady, Gillespie Sarah Kate, Mayer Lance, Myers Gay, McClellan Andrew, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300207613, Yale University Press, October 2014
224 pp., 25.4x24.1 cm, 135 colour illus.

Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) large-scale painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33) is one of the most significant, and enigmatic, works of early-19th-century American art. It is also one of the last works Morse painted before turning his attention...

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Biography & Memoires

Susan Sontag The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

Cott Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780300199024, Yale University Press, October 2014
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1979, Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag f...

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History of Art

Silent Partners Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish

Munro Jane

ISBN: HB: 9780300208221, Yale University Press, September 2014
304 pp., 28x23 cm, 220 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. Its mobile limbs enable the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the depiction of drapery and cloth...

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