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International Novel

Patterson Annabel

ISBN: HB: 9780300198003, Yale University Press, November 2014
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white maps

Annabel Patterson here turns her well-known concern with political history in early modern England into an engine for investigating our own era and a much wider terrain. The focus of this book is, broadly, nationalism and internationalism today, appr...

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Ecology

Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River

Plater Zygmunt J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...

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World

Global Crisis War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300208634, Yale University Press, August 2014
672 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 black&white illus.

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and extent. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from E...

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Spanish

Seamos Pragmaticos Introduccion a La Pragmatica Espanola

Pinto Derrin, Pablos-Ortega Carlos de

ISBN: PB: 9780300191097, Yale University Press, August 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Seamos pragmaticos fills a void in the growing field of Spanish pragmatics. As more courses at the undergraduate level are being created in the U.S., this practical text will be the first one tailored to advanced undergraduate and graduate students w...

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Contemporary Art

Marisol Sculptures and Works on Paper, 1955-1998

Pacini Marina, Anthes Bill, Ashton Dore, Cullen Deborah, Dreishpoon Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780300203790, Yale University Press, May 2014
200 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 184 colour illus.

The Paris-born, Venezuelan artist Marisol (b.1930) burst on to the 1960s New York art scene with large figural sculptures in a wild amalgam of mixed-media. Often satirical, Marisol's art is inspired by sources as diverse as Pre-Columbian art, folk ar...

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Entomology

Chasing Monarchs Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300203875, Yale University Press, May 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle,...

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Photography

Contemporary Art

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2: 1975-1986

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300198102, Yale University Press, March 2014
496 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari's work from 1975-1986. It covers his photo-based works such as the "Strobe", "Word Chain" and "Pathetic Fallacy" seri...

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Fiction

Swann's Way

Proust Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9780300185430, Yale University Press, December 2013
504 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time". In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been...

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Political Science

Against the Profit Motive The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940

Parrillo Nicholas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194753, Yale University Press, November 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

<p>In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collect...

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General

Civil Disobedience An American Tradition

Perry Lewis

ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...

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