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Architecture

Schlepping Through Ambivalence Essays on an American Architectural Condition

Tigerman Stanley, Petit Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300175417, Yale University Press, October 2011
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 colour images, 39 black&white illus.

Chicago architect and iconoclast Stanley Tigerman has been called a "design maven who can spit venom like a snake". Though he is at times sharply critical, his ability to cut to the core of architectural discourse has opened this insular world to a b...

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Contemporary Art

Stieglitz and His Artists Matisse to O'Keeffe

Mintz Messinger Lisa, Dabrowski Magdalena, Michael Cora, Murphy Jessica, Rewald Sabine, Rippner Samantha, Tolles Thayer

ISBN: HB: 9780300175882, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
352 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 440 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

A master photographer, Alfred Stieglitz was also a visionary promoter and avid collector of modern American and European art from the first half of the 20th century. This publication is the first fully-illustrated catalogue of works in the unparallel...

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German

Schreiben lernen A Writing Guide for Learners of German

Dykstra-Pruim Pennylyn, Redmann Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780300166033, Yale University Press, July 2011
224 pp., 15x25 cm, 68 black&white illus.

This text offers a unique approach to assisting German learners at various levels of proficiency in developing their writing skills in eight different genres. The guide includes information and activities for structuring sentences, paragraphs, and en...

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Business & Economics

Sixty to Zero An Inside Look at the Collapse of General Motors - and the Detroit Auto Industry

Taylor Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780300171518, Yale University Press, May 2011
254 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

The collapse of General Motors captured headlines in early 2009, but as Alex Taylor writes in this in-depth dissection of the car manufacturer's undoing, GM's was a meltdown forty years in the making. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience a...

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Other

Spirit of Zoroastrianism

Skjaervo Prods Oktor

ISBN: PB: 9780300170351, Yale University Press, May 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm

Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest religions, though it is not among the best understood. Originating with Iranian tribes living in Central Asia in the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism was the official religion of the Iranian empires un...

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History of Art

Steins Collect Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Bishop Janet, Debray Cecile, Rabinow Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300169416, Yale University Press, May 2011
464 pp., 29.6x25.9 cm, 220 black&white illus., 400 colour illus.

As American expatriates living in Paris, the writer Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael's wife Sarah were absolutely pivotal in shaping the city's vibrant cultural life in the early 20th century. They hosted Saturday evening sal...

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Performing Arts

Stravinsky's Ballets

Joseph Charles M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300118728, Yale University Press, May 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Igor Stravinsky was a towering composer of the twentieth century and closely linked to dance. His early commissions for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes – "The Firebird", "Petrouchka", and "The Rite of Spring" – put him on the international map and propell...

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Europe

Strawberry Hill Press and its Printing House

Clarke Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300170405, Yale University Press, May 2011
152 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 colour illus.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill Press, founded in 1757, is the most celebrated of the early English private presses, unique for the importance of the books, pamphlets and ephemera it produced. This illustrated study of the Press draws on a remarkabl...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Solomon The Lure of Wisdom

Weitzman Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300137187, Yale University Press, April 2011
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Tradition has it that King Solomon knew everything there was to know – the mysteries of nature, of love, of God himself – but what do we know of him? Esteemed biblical scholar Steven Weitzman reintroduces readers to Solomon's story and its surprising...

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Europe

Solovki The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

Robson Roy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178517, Yale University Press, April 2011
322 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers...

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