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Architecture

Sheldonian Theatre Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford

Geraghty Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300195040, Yale University Press, September 2013
168 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 22 black&white illus.

A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this meticul...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Sun Chief The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (Second Edition)

Talayesva Don C., Simmons Leo W., Sakiestewa Gilbert Matthew, Hine Robert V.

ISBN: PB: 9780300191035, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in 1942, "Sun Chief" is the autobiography of Hopi Chief Don C. Talayesva and offers a unique insider view on Hopi society. In a new Foreword, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert situates the book within contemporary Hopi studies, exploring how...

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Biography & Memoires

Strindberg A Life

Prideaux Sue

ISBN: PB: 9780300198065, ISBN: HB: 9780300136937, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist and hellraiser – August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as "the mad inventor of modern theater" who led playwriting out of the polite draw...

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Christianity

Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Ozment Steven E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192537, Yale University Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 colour images, 81 black&white illus.

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-refor...

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Contemporary Art

Saints Alive Michael Landy in the National Gallery

Wiggins Colin, Cork Richard, Sliwka Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9781857095609, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2013
72 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 80 colour illus.

British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs), was first catapulted to the world spotlight when it was featured in the notorious Sensa...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove Buildings of England

Antram Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300184730, Yale University Press, May 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The "East Sussex" volume of "The Buildings of England" covers an area ranging from the High Weald in the north of the county to the massive ridge of the South Downs and the resort towns and ancient ports of the coast. Its coastal resorts are particul...

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Other

Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

Kleber Monod Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

South Ulster, the Counties of Armagh, Cavan, and Monaghan Buildings of Ireland

Mulligan Kevin V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186017, Yale University Press, April 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The newest volume in the "Buildings of Ireland" series covers the inland counties of Cavan, Monaghan, and Armagh, an area stretching from the thinly populated uplands around the Cuilcagh Mountains and the cradle of the Shannon to the fertile Blackwat...

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Biography & Memoires

Film Studies

Sarah The Life of Sarah Bernhardt

Gottlieb Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300192599, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 94 black&white illus.

Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career – redefining the very nature of her art – to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the am...

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Political Science

Single Roll of the Dice Obama's Diplomacy with Iran

Parsi Trita

ISBN: PB: 9780300192360, Yale University Press, March 2013
304 pp., 21x14 cm

Have the diplomatic efforts of the Obama administration toward Iran failed? Was the Bush administration's emphasis on military intervention, refusal to negotiate, and pursuit of regime change a better approach? How can the United States best address...

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