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Design

Swedish Wooden Toys

Ogata Amy F., Weber Susan

ISBN: HB: 9780300200751, Yale University Press, June 2014
352 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 360 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Combining the best of Scandinavian design with a plentiful indigenous supply of trees, the Swedish toy industry has long produced vast quantities of colourful, quality wooden items. This superbly illustrated book, including specially commissioned pho...

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Fiction

Severina

Rosa Rodrigo Rey, Andrews Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300196092, Yale University Press, May 2014
112 pp., 21x14 cm

"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything...I knew she'd be back", the narrator/bookseller of "Severina" recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is da...

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Christianity

Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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History of Art

Strange Beauty German Paintings at the National Gallery

Bugler Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9781857095708, Yale University Press, February 2014
112 pp., 19.1x17.1 cm, 70 colour illus.

This book of highlights from the National Gallery's collection of German art presents masterpieces by some of the world's favourite Renaissance artists – Hans Holbein, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach and Adam Elsheimer – as well as wonderful paintings...

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Biochemistry

Science of Human Perfection Heredity, Health, and Human Improvement in American Biomedicine

Comfort Nathaniel C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198195, ISBN: HB: 9780300169911, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Almost daily we hear news stories, advertisements, and scientific reports that promise genetic medicine will make us live longer, enable doctors to identify and treat diseases before they start, and individualize our medical care. But surprisingly, a...

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World

Ship of Death A Voyage that Changed the Atlantic World

Smith Billy G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300194524, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Hankey, one small British ship that circled the Atlantic Ocean in 1792 and 1793, transformed Atlantic World history. This extraordinary book tells the just-uncovered story of the Hankey, from its altruistic begin...

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Jewish Studies

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Social History of Hebrew Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

Schniedewind William M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176681, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes and priests who used i...

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Political Science

Middle East

Struggle for Iraq's Future How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy

al-Ali Zaid

ISBN: HB: 9780300187267, Yale University Press, December 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Since the withdrawal of US occupying forces, international attention has shifted away from Iraq – but life for Iraqis has become no easier. Deadly bombings are still all too common, sectarian violence has soared and all-pervading corruption means tha...

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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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Poetry

Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011

Bonnefoy Yves, Rogers Hoyt

ISBN: PB: 9780300198188, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Yves Bonnefoy, now 87 years old, has enjoyed during the past two decades perhaps the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected...

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