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Europe

Competing Visions of Empire Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Swingen Abigail L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187540, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and...

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America

Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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Ecology

Climate Casino Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

Nordhaus William

ISBN: PB: 9780300212648, Yale University Press, April 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 46 black&white illus.

Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still tim...

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History of Art

Collecting with the Cobbes of Newbridge An Anglo-Irish Countryhouse Museum, 1750-1850

MacGregor Arthur

ISBN: HB: 9780300204353, Yale University Press, March 2015
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 100 black&white illus., 200 colour images

This beautiful book reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House (Co. Dublin) and developed it over the following century. Now housed at Hatchlands Park, Su...

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Contemporary Art

Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008

Frank Robin Jaffee, Denson Charles, Glick Josh, Kasson John F., Musser Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300189902, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 77 black&white illus.

Called "America's playground", Coney Island is a world-famous resort and national cultural symbol that has inspired music, literature, and films. This groundbreaking book is the first to look at the site's enduring status as inspiration for artists t...

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Greek & Latin

College Latin An Intermediate Course

Corrigan Peter L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300190922, Yale University Press, February 2015
512 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

By providing a much-needed grammar review, along with a variety of readings that will suit the tastes of many different teaching preferences, this textbook will help students make the transition from beginning Latin to the intermediate level. The boo...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Constructing Private Governance The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification

Auld Graeme

ISBN: PB: 9780300190533, Yale University Press, December 2014
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

Recent decades have witnessed the rise of social and environmental certification programmes that are intended to promote responsible business practices. Consumers now encounter organic or fair-trade labels on a variety of products, implying such desi...

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Christianity

Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition

Anderson Gary A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198836, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we expla...

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History of Art

Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cambridgeshire Buildings of England

Bradley Simon, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300205961, Yale University Press, October 2014
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years. Half of the book is devoted to the famous University city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings...

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