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Biography & Memoires

Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

Blake David

ISBN: PB: 9780300217131, Yale University Press, May 2015
270 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hy...

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Europe

Wellington The Path to Victory 1769-1814

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300205480, Yale University Press, March 2015
744 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 illus., maps, plans

The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a m...

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Literary Criticism

Why X Matters

Why the Romantics Matter

Gay Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300144291, Yale University Press, February 2015
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of...

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Architecture

Writings of Josep Lluis Sert

Mumford Eric, Sert Josep Lluis, Mostafavi Mohsen

ISBN: HB: 9780300207392, Yale University Press, February 2015
184 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 75 black&white illus.

Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design. His writings offer a n...

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America

General

Who Speaks for the Negro?

Warren Robert Penn, Blight David W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Political Science

General

Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America

Duncan Cynthia M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...

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Military

Wellington's Wars The Making of a Military Genius

Davies Huw

ISBN: PB: 9780300208658, ISBN: HB: 9780300164176, Yale University Press, October 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate – and controversial – n...

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Europe

Weimar From Enlightenment to the Present

Kater Michael H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300170566, Yale University Press, August 2014
472 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Historian Michael H. Kater chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this fascinating and surprisingly provocative history of Weimar. Weimar was a centre of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German...

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History of Art

What May Come The Taller De Grafica Popular and the Mexican Political Print

Miliotes Diane

ISBN: PB: 9780300207781, Yale University Press, A+D Series, August 2014
40 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 25 colour illus.

Established in Mexico City in 1937, the Taller de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Arts Workshop) sought to create prints, posters and illustrated publications that were appealing and affordable, legible and politically topical, and above all formal...

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