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Braun Joshua A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197501, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Journalism, television, cable, and online media are all evolving rapidly. At the nexus of these volatile industries is a growing group of individuals and firms whose job it is to develop and maintain online distribution channels for television news p...

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World

Those Who Hold Bastogne Inside the Biggest Battle of the Bulge

Schrijvers Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300216141, Yale University Press, October 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.

Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of Normandy all the way back to the beaches. The plan nearly succeeded, and almost certainly would have, were it not for one small Belgian town and its tenacious...

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Photography

That Day Pictures in the American West

Wilson Laura, Rohrbach John, Graybill Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300215397, Yale University Press, September 2015
232 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 11 colour illus., 107 duotone illus.

Renowned photographer Laura Wilson has captured the majesty, as well as the tragedy, of her home region of Texas and the wider West for more than three decades. A former assistant to Richard Avedon, she has published her work to wide acclaim over the...

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Performing Arts

Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 A Critical Anthology

Knopf Robert, Listengarten Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300206739, Yale University Press, September 2015
546 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

An essential volume for theatre artists and students alike, this anthology includes the full texts of sixteen important examples of avant-garde drama from the most daring and influential artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Middle East

Political Science

Taliban Revival Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier

Abbas Hassan

ISBN: PB: 9780300216165, ISBN: HB: 9780300178845, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliba...

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Contemporary Art

T. R. Ericsson Crackle and Drag

Tannenbaum Barbara L., Gerspacher Arnaud

ISBN: HB: 9780300213218, Yale University Press, August 2015
240 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

This is the first monograph dedicated to contemporary artist TR Ericsson (b. 1972), who with conceptual rigor and emotional directness uses the archives chronicling his family's painful past to explore the healing powers of commemoration and memory....

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Contemporary Art

Traces of Survival Drawings of Refugees in Iraq Selected by Ai Weiwei

Chalabi Tamara, Van Cauteren Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300218206, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2015
152 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 408 colour illus.

This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, these 350 drawings were cre...

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Europe

Polonica

Trouble with History Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution

Michnik Adam, Gross Irena Grudzinska, Matynia Elzbieta, Marczyk Agnieszka, Czarny Roman S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300185973, Yale University Press, July 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to t...

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Christianity

Ten Commandments A Short History of an Ancient Text

Coogan Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300212501, Yale University Press, June 2015
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.

<p>In this lively and provocative book, Michael Coogan guides readers into the ancient past to examine the iconic status of the Ten Commandments, also known as the Decalogue. How, among all the laws reportedly given on Mount Sinai, did the Ten Comman...

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Performing Arts

Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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