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Mathematics

Shape of a Life One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry

Yau Shing-Tung, Nadis Steve

ISBN: HB: 9780300235906, Yale University Press, April 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.

Harvard geometer and Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau has provided a mathematical foundation for string theory, offered new insights into black holes, and mathematically demonstrated the stability of our universe. In this autobiography, Yau reflects on...

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Fiction

Snapshots

Magris Claudio

ISBN: PB: 9780300218497, Yale University Press, April 2019
152 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The internationally acclaimed author Claudio Magris offers a collection of brief "snapshots" reflecting on life and culture from 1999 to 2013 through his very personal lens. Some pieces portray private, intimate moments, while others offer views on p...

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Political Science

Europe

Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course

Brandenberger David, Zelenov Mikhail V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...

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Poetry

Selected Poems

Riordain Sean O., Sewell Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300240184, ISBN: HB: 9780300190588, Yale University Press, March 2019
256 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In the mid-twentieth century, a new generation of poets writing in Irish emerged, led by the young Sean O. Riordain, among others. O. Riordain's work has stood the test of time well, and he continues to engage today's Irish readers and writers. This...

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Nature

Culture Studies

Seeing Trees A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin

Dumpelmann Sonja

ISBN: HB: 9780300225785, Yale University Press, February 2019
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dumpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dumpelmann shows how New York City a...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Europe

Siberia A History of the People

Hartley Janet M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246421, Yale University Press, January 2019
322 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Larger in area than the United States and Europe combined, Siberia is a land of extremes, not merely in terms of climate and expanse, but in the many kinds of lives its population has led over the course of four centuries. Janet M. Hartley explores t...

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Buddhism

Spirit of Zen

Van Schaik Sam

ISBN: PB: 9780300221459, Yale University Press, November 2018
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving collections of teachings by Zen masters. These teachings, titled "The Masters and Students of the Lanka", wer...

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America

Supermarket USA Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

Hamilton Shane

ISBN: HB: 9780300232691, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommu...

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History of Art

Sculptural Seeing Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy

Lakey Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300232141, Yale University Press, November 2018
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 36 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Although perspective has long been considered one of the essential developments of Renaissance painting, this provocative new book shifts the usual narrative back centuries, showing that medieval sculptors were already employing knowledge of optical...

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