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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Joshua 1-12 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Dozeman Thomas B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149753, Yale University Press, July 2015
600 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white maps

An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function, and causes of the religious violence depicted therein. By blending the distin...

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Computer Science & Internet

Global War for Internet Governance

DeNardis Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780300212525, Yale University Press, April 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The Internet has transformed the manner in which information is exchanged and business is conducted, arguably more than any other communication development in the past century. Despite its wide reach and powerful global influence, it is a medium unco...

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Military

Samurai and the Culture of Japan's Great Peace

Drixler Fabian, Fleming William D., Wheeler Robert George

ISBN: PB: 9781933789033, Yale University Press, March 2015
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Through artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History and other collections at Yale University, this lavishly illustrated volume takes readers on a journey into Japan's early modern cultural and political history. It also offers tantalizi...

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Europe

Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order

Davies Sarah, Harris James

ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...

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Ecology

Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Davis Frederick Rowe

ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...

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Literary Criticism

Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

Dowling David

ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Auschwitz and After

Delbo Charlotte, Lamont Rosette C., Langer Lawrence L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190779, Yale University Press, November 2014
384 pp., 21x14 cm

Written by a mamber of the French resistance who became an important literary figure in postwar France, this moving memoir of life and death in Auschwitz and the post-war experiences of women survivors has become a key text for Holocaust studies clas...

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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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Photography

Frank Browne A Life Through the Lens

Davison David, Davison Edwin, Ford Colin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208153, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 220 tritone illus.

Born in Cork, Ireland, Francis Browne (1880-1960) was both a distinguished Jesuit and an accomplished photographer. At age 17, before commencing his studies for the priesthood, he embarked on a tour of Europe armed with a camera; Browne continued to...

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