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History of Art

Alfred Maurer At the Vanguard of Modernism

Epstein Stacey

ISBN: HB: 9780300207804, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 176 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

American painter Alfred Maurer (1868-1932) worked within an international circle of avant-garde artists, and his friendships with key figures, including the collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein as well as Dr. Albert Barnes, positioned him at the nexus o...

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Performing Arts

New Anthology of Early Modern Spanish Theater Play and Playtext

Mujica Barbara

ISBN: HB: 9780300109566, Yale University Press, February 2015
800 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 black&white illus.

This anthology of plays from the Spanish Golden Age brings together the work of canonical writers, female writers who are rapidly achieving canonical status, and lesser-known writers who have recently gained critical attention. It contains the full t...

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Media Studies

Invention of News How the World Came to Know About Itself

Pettegree Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300212761, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the pre-industrial era news was gathered and shared through conversation and gossip, civic ceremony, celebration, sermons and pr...

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Business & Economics

Hard Times The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

Clark Tom, Heath Anthony

ISBN: PB: 9780300212747, ISBN: HB: 9780300203776, Yale University Press, February 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres...

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History of Art

Ireland Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840

Monkhouse Christopher, Laffan William, Fitzpatrick Leslie

ISBN: HB: 9780300210606, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
224 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 375 colour illus.

This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts, forging a uniquely Irish style. Nearly all of the works within this remarkabl...

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Poetry

Rhyme's Reason A Guide to English Verse

Hollander John, McClatchy J. D., Wilbur Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300206296, Yale University Press, February 2015
160 pp., 21x14 cm

Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wil...

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Political Science

Underdog Politics The Minority Party in the U.S. House of Representatives

Green Matthew N.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181036, Yale University Press, February 2015
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

In the first comprehensive study of the subject in decades, political scholar Matthew Green disputes the conventional belief that the minority party in the U.S. House of Representatives is an unimportant political player. Examining the record of the...

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Ecology

Back to the Garden Nature and the Mediterranean World from Prehistory to the Present

McGregor James H. S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197464, Yale University Press, February 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance on and kinship to the land, and they understood nature through the lens of their diversely cultivated landscape. Their image of the garden und...

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Europe

Stalin and the Lubianka A Documentary History of the Political Police and Security Organs in the Soviet Union, 1922-1953

Shearer David R., Khaustov Vladimir

ISBN: HB: 9780300171891, Yale University Press, February 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization and fortunes of the politica...

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Architecture

David Adjaye Form, Heft, Material

Ryan Zoe, Enwezor Okwui, Allison Peter, Adjaye David, Phillips Andrea, Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: PB: 9780300207750, Yale University Press, A+D Series, February 2015
296 pp., 25.1x18.1 cm, 181 colour illus., 58 black&white illus.

Born in Tanzania, David Adjaye (b. 1966) is rapidly emerging as a major international figure in architecture and design-and this stunning catalogue serves only to cement his role as one of the most important architects of our time. His expanding port...

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