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Buddhism

Secular Buddhism Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World

Batchelor Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300234251, Yale University Press, March 2018
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism. As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation....

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Biography & Memoires

Film Studies

Steven Spielberg A Life in Films

Haskell Molly

ISBN: PB: 9780300234473, ISBN: HB: 9780300186932, Yale University Press, March 2018
248 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades – long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented. "Everything about me is in my films", Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding t...

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History of Art

Still Life Before Still Life

Ekserdjian David

ISBN: HB: 9780300190175, Yale University Press, March 2018
256 pp., 27x22.2 cm, 212 colour illus.

This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of the genre beginning in the early 17th century, noted scholar David Eks...

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Decorative Arts

Silver Caesars A Renaissance Mystery

Alcorn Ellenor, Bimbenet-Privat Michele, Beard Mary, Koeppe Wolfram, Salomon Xavier F., Schroder Timothy B., Walker Stefanie, Siemon Julia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396396, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 250 colour illus.

The twelve silver-gilt cups known as the Aldobrandini Tazze – magnificent examples of 16th-century European goldsmithing in size, design, and quality of execution – feature figures and scenes from Roman historian Suetonius's classic work "The Twelve...

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Jewish Studies

Stakes of History On the Use and Abuse of Jewish History for Life

Myers David N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228939, Yale University Press, February 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers's illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of ke...

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America

Strangers on Familiar Soil Rediscovering the Chile-California Connection

Dallam Melillo Edward

ISBN: PB: 9780300230703, Yale University Press, November 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking history explores the many unrecognized, enduring linkages between the state of California and the country of Chile. The book begins in 1786, when a French expedition brought the potato from Chile to California, and it concludes wi...

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General

Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life

Erikson Kai T.

ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...

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Architecture

South-East Marylebone Survey of London: Volumes 51 and 52

Temple Philip, Thom Colin, Saint Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300221978, Yale University Press, October 2017
800 pp., 28.6x22.2 cm, 670 colour illus., maps, plans

Providing essential knowledge about the British capital's built environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from j...

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Ecology

Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

Burch William R., Machlis Gary E., Force Jo Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300137033, Yale University Press, October 2017
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. "The Human Ecosystem Model" described in this landmark book provides an innovative res...

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Philosophy

Other

Seven Ways of Looking at Religion The Major Narratives

Schewel Benjamin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218473, Yale University Press, September 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Western intellectuals have long theorized that religion would undergo a process of marginalization and decline as the forces of modernity advanced. Yet recent events have disrupted this seductively straightforward story. As a result, while it is clea...

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