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Polonica

Trans-Atlantyk

Gombrowicz Witold, Borchardt Danuta

ISBN: PB: 9780300175301, Yale University Press, April 2014
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in his acclaimed classic Trans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's...

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Political Science

Theory of Militant Democracy The Ethics of Combatting Political

Kirshner Alexander S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188240, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

How should pro-democratic forces safeguard representative government from anti-democratic forces? By granting rights of participation to groups that do not share democratic values, democracies may endanger the very rights they have granted; but denyi...

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Culture Studies

Through a Screen Darkly Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America's Image Abroad

Bayles Martha

ISBN: HB: 9780300123388, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

What does the world admire most about America? Science, technology, higher education, consumer goods – but not, it seems, freedom and democracy. Indeed, these ideals are in global retreat, for reasons ranging from ill-conceived foreign policy to the...

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Education

Talent Wants to Be Free Why We Should Learn to Love Leaks, Raids, and Free Riding

Lobel Orly

ISBN: HB: 9780300166279, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This timely book challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentaliti...

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Contemporary Art

Tony Oursler/Vox Vernacular

Busine Laurent, Gielen Denis, Oursler Tony

ISBN: HB: 9780300204483, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2014
256 pp., 22.2x29.2 cm, 190 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

American artist Tony Oursler (b. 1957) gathers inspiration from the way people's desires are extended through interaction with mass media, specifically cinema, television and the internet, and creates fascinating video installations that combine word...

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History of Art

Tell it with Pride The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial

Greenough Sarah, Anderson Nancy, Harris Lindsay R., Ater Renee, Powell Richard J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197730, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 210 colour illus.

On July 18, 1863, six months after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the first American units composed of African Americans stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina, led by Colonel Robert Shaw Gould. Although the regiment su...

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Military

Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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History of Art

Thomas Sully Painted Performance

Keyse Rudolph William, Eaton Soltis Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300197419, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

Thomas Sully (1783-1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Although he created more than two thousand portraits and subject paintings, his ful...

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Biography & Memoires

Totally Unofficial The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin

Frieze Donna-Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300186963, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary life of struggle and hardship, yet altered international law and redefined the world's understanding of group rights. He invented the concept and word "geno...

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America

Time No Longer Americans After the American Century

Smith Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300176568, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice: b...

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