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Fiction

Sleep of Memory

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300248586, Yale University Press, February 2020
136 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy o...

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Contemporary Art

S.M.A.K. Highlights for a Future The Collection

Van Cauteren Philippe, Verhoeven Thibaut, Paschalidis Iris, Armstrong Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300248012, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, February 2020
304 pp., 26.4x22.2 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

The Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (translated as the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art and commonly abbreviated as S.M.A.K.), located in Ghent, Belgium, has quickly established a reputation for both a superlative permanent collection and pro...

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Military

Seapower States Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World

Lambert Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300251487, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 7 maps

Andrew Lambert, author of "The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812" – winner of the prestigious Anderson Medal – turns his attention to Athens, Carthage, Venice, the Dutch Republic, and Britain, examining how their identities...

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History of Art

Signac and the Independants

Genty Gilles, Desmarais Mary-Dailey

ISBN: HB: 9780300251982, Yale University Press, January 2020
382 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 550 black&white, colour illus.

In Paris at the turn of the 20th century, an artistic revolution was underway. The Salon des Independants was organized in 1884 by a group of artists and thinkers that included Albert Dubois-Pillet, Odilon Redon, Georges Seurat, and Paul Signac, who...

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Architecture

Ecology

Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Pickett Steward T. A., Cadenasso Mary L., Grove J. Morgan, Irwin Elena G., Rosi Emma J., Swan Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...

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Anthropology

History of Art

Second Careers Two Tributaries in African Art

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246872, Yale University Press, January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.

Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...

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Public Health

Sick to Debt How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care

Ubel Peter A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238464, Yale University Press, January 2020
216 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amoun...

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Law

Software Rights How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Con Diaz Gerardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300228397, Yale University Press, January 2020
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Diaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and...

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Poetry

Some Trees

Ashbery John

ISBN: PB: 9780300246377, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm

Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". After the publication of "Some Trees", selecting j...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Sahel Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

LaGamma Alisa

ISBN: HB: 9781588396877, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
288 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 300 colour illus.

This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...

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