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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Witch A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300238679, Yale University Press, September 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

<p>The witch came to prominence – and often a painful death – in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In this landmark book, Ronald Hutton traces witchcraft from the ancient worl...

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Reference

Writing Successful Science Proposals Third Edition

Friedland Andrew J., Folt Carol L, Mercer Jennifer L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226706, Yale University Press, September 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science proposal writing This fully revised edition of the authoritative guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any researcher embarking on a grant or thesis application....

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Business & Economics

Political Science

When the Money Runs Out The End of Western Affluence

King Stephen D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300236934, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

An eminent economist warns that Western nations' economic expectations for the future are way out of sync with the realities of economic stagnation and stringent steps will be required to avoid massive political and economic upheaval.

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History of Art

Photography

Winslow Homer and the Camera Photography and the Art of Painting

Goodyear Frank H., Byrd Dana E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214550, Yale University Press, July 2018
208 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 138 colour illus.

One of the greatest American painters of the 19th century, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) also maintained a deep engagement with photography throughout his career. Focusing on the important, yet often-overlooked, role that photography played in Homer's ar...

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Philosophy

War An Enquiry

Grayling A. C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234459, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm

A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more. For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inco...

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Military

Biography & Memoires

William the Conqueror

Bates David

ISBN: PB: 9780300234169, Yale University Press, May 2018
616 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach...

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America

Wellington Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace 1814-1852

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300232820, ISBN: HB: 9780300187861, Yale University Press, April 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus.

Wellington's momentous victory over Napoleon was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington's achievements were far from over: he commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat...

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Poetry

We Play a Game

Doan Duy, Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300230871, ISBN: HB: 9780300230888, Yale University Press, March 2018
104 pp., 21x14 cm

Duy Doan's striking debut reveals the wide resonance of the collection's unassuming title, in poems that explore – now with abundant humor, now with a deeply felt reserve – the ambiguities and tensions that mark our effort to know our histories, our...

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Biography & Memoires

Whistler A Life for Art's Sake

Sutherland Daniel E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300232639, ISBN: HB: 9780300203462, Yale University Press, March 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 12 colour images, 94 black&white illus.

This first biography in more than twenty years of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is also the first to make extensive use of the artist's private correspondence to tell the story of his life and work. This engaging personal history dispels the pop...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Whistler's Mother Portrait of an Extraordinary Life

Sutherland Daniel E., Toutziari Georgia

ISBN: HB: 9780300229684, Yale University Press, March 2018
254 pp., 23.3x15.6 cm, 60 colour and black&white illus.

Judged by the portrait Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 (1871), painted by her son James McNeill Whistler, Anna Whistler (1804-1881) appears to have been a pious, unassuming, domestic woman. This characterization, however, is far from the whole tr...

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