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History of Art

Van Gogh and Nature

Kendall Richard, Van Heugten Sjraar, Stolwijk Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300210293, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

The celebrated painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a lifelong fascination with the natural world. He spent his youth in rural Holland, and the country's flat landscapes, trees, flowers, and birds would feature in his early art. After he moved to...

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History

Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great Revolution in Science

Knight David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212754, Yale University Press, May 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the an...

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History of Art

Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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Literary Criticism

Voice Still Heard Selected Essays of Irving Howe

Howe Irving, Dickstein Morris

ISBN: HB: 9780300203660, Yale University Press, January 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and p...

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Literary Criticism

Virtue of Sympathy Magic, Philosophy and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England

Lobis Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300192032, Yale University Press, December 2014
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and building to a new reading of Milton's "Paradise Lost", author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred t...

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Philosophy

Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Wollstonecraft Mary, Botting Eileen Hunt, Abbey Ruth, Clarke Norma, Cronin Madeline, Sapiro Virginia

ISBN: PB: 9780300176476, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 21x14 cm

Mary Wollstonecraft's visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women's rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for coursework and classroom study, this comprehensive edition of Wollstonecraft's heart...

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History of Art

Veronese

Salomon Xavier F.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095531, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2014
272 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) was one of the great Venetian artists of the Renaissance, whose works were admired for their rich colours and mastery of theatrical narrative. His paintings ranged from decorative fresco schemes and portraits to allegorical...

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Ecology

Business & Economics

Very Hungry City Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities

Troy Austin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198355, ISBN: HB: 9780300162318, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

As global demand for energy grows and prices rise, a city's energy consumption becomes increasingly tied to its economic viability, warns the author of "The Very Hungry City". Austin Troy, a seasoned expert in urban environmental management, explains...

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History of Art

Van Gogh Repetitions

Rathbone Eliza E., Robinson William H., Steele Elizabeth, Steele Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300190823, Yale University Press, November 2013
208 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist's method was more often controlled and deliberate. "Van Gogh Repetitions" is the first book to focus on t...

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Political Science

Voting Wars From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198249, ISBN: HB: 9780300182033, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000 presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the presidency by the U. S. Supreme Court, revealed that our electoral processes...

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