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Law

100 Million Unnecessary Returns A Simple, Fair, and Competitive Tax Plan for the United States

Graetz Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164572, Yale University Press, January 2010
286 pp., 21x14 cm, 19 black&white illus.

To most Americans, the United States tax code has become a vast and confounding puzzle. In 1940, the instructions to the form 1040 were about four pages long. Today they have ballooned to more than a hundred pages, and the form itself contains more t...

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Decorative Arts

Brilliant Effects A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery

Pointon Marcia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300142785, Yale University Press, January 2010
368 pp., 29x24.5 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Diamonds are not for ever – nor necessarily are they a girl's best friend. Ranging from precious stones as raw wealth to the symbolic properties of gems whether in Antiquity and the Bible or in Victorian art and literature, this book examines how sma...

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History of Art

British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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Philosophy

Natural Reflections Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion

Smith Barbara Herrnstein

ISBN: HB: 9780300140347, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 21x14 cm

In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One of these initiatives, which Smith c...

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Poetry

Why X Matters

Why Poetry Matters

Parini Jay

ISBN: PB: 9780300151466, Yale University Press, January 2010
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm

Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. Undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Par...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Society of Dilettanti Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment

Kelly Jason M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300152197, Yale University Press, January 2010
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 100 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

In 1732, a group of elite young men, calling themselves the Society of Dilettanti, held their first meeting in London. The qualification for membership was travel to Italy where the original members had met each other on the grand tour. These nobleme...

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Christianity

All Can Be Saved Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World

Schwartz Stuart B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300158540, Yale University Press, January 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

It would seem unlikely that one could discover tolerant religious attitudes in Spain, Portugal, and the New World colonies during the era of the Inquisition, when enforcement of Catholic orthodoxy was widespread and brutal. Yet this groundbreaking bo...

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Genetics

Woman Who Walked into the Sea Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease

Wexler Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300158618, Yale University Press, January 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This title presents a groundbreaking medical and social history of a devastating hereditary neurological disorder once demonized as "the witchcraft disease". When Phebe Hedges, a woman in East Hampton, New York, walked into the sea in 1806, she made...

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Fashion

American Beauty Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion

Mears Patricia

ISBN: HB: 9780300155358, Yale University Press, January 2010
192 pp., 30x23.5 cm, 120 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book is the first to examine the relationship between innovation and aesthetics as expressed by American couturiers and fashion designers from the late 1910s to the present day. The book, which accompanies a major exhibit...

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Architecture

Ruskin on Venice "The Paradise of Cities"

Hewison Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300121780, Yale University Press, January 2010
500 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 105 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

For John Ruskin, one of the leading cultural critics of the nineteenth century, Venice represented his ideal of civic society, where culture, government and faith were in creative harmony – "The Paradise of Cities". This was not the fallen city of th...

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