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Warm South How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

Holland Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300251531, ISBN: HB: 9780300235920, Yale University Press, August 2020
336 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 30 colour illus.

Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons – including many painters and poets – who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Refer...

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Military

War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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Health & Wellbeing

Way of Life Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine

Farquhar Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300237238, Yale University Press, May 2020
184 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naive faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical worlds in today's China, here offers a concise an...

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Literary Criticism

Why X Matters

Why Writing Matters

Delbanco Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300245974, Yale University Press, May 2020
296 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and Jam...

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America

Criminology

Woman on the Windowsill A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts

Sellers-Garcia Sylvia

ISBN: HB: 9780300234282, Yale University Press, April 2020
296 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 32 black&white illus.

On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...

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Business & Economics

What's Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed

Skidelsky Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300249873, Yale University Press, March 2020
224 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This insightful book looks at how mainstream economics' quest for scientific certainty has led to a narrowing of vision and a convergence on an orthodoxy that is unhealthy for the field, not to mention the societies which base policy decisions on the...

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Buddhism

Why I Am Not a Buddhist

Thompson Evan

ISBN: HB: 9780300226553, Yale University Press, March 2020
240 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Buddhism has become a uniquely favored religion in our modern age. A burgeoning number of books extol the scientifically proven benefits of meditation and mindfulness for everything ranging from business to romance. There are conferences, courses, an...

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America

We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World

Yaffe Helen

ISBN: HB: 9780300230031, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interview...

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Biography & Memoires

Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist Three Lives in an Age of Empire

Fullagar Kate

ISBN: HB: 9780300243062, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

Well Worth Saving American Universities' Life-and-Death Decisions on Refugees from Nazi Europe

Leff Laurel

ISBN: HB: 9780300243871, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The United States' role in saving Europe's intellectual elite from the Nazis is often told as a tale of triumph, which in many ways it was. America welcomed Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse, Rudolf Carnap and Richar...

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