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Christianity

Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire

Luckritz Marquis Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300187144, Yale University Press, May 2013
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus' age, when Rom...

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Christianity

Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Christianity

Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Travel

Empire of Ice Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

Larson Edward J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300188219, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 21x14 cm, 54 black&white illus.

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, "An Empire of Ice" presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of N...

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History of Art

Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Lees Sarah, Rand Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300179651, Yale University Press, January 2013
1008 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 475 colour illus.

The core of the Clark's collection was assembled by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), who once declared, "I like all kinds of art if it is good of its kind". This monumental, two-volume publication is the first fully-documented catalogue of European...

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History of Art

Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity Historical Contexts of Jewish Art

Levine Lee I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300100891, Yale University Press, January 2013
576 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 128 black&white illus.

A new type of Jewish art emerged in Late Antiquity, when artists produced visual depictions that had not existed earlier within a Jewish context – figural images (including pagan motifs), biblical scenes, and religious symbols. "Visual Judaism" locat...

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America

John Brown's Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Lubet Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300180497, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Brown's "Spy" tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armoury in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a woman...

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Buddhism

Scientific Buddha His Short and Happy Life

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300159127, Yale University Press, October 2012
160 pp., 21x14 cm

This book tells the story of the Scientific Buddha, "born" in Europe in the 1800s but commonly confused with the Buddha born in India 2,500 years ago. The Scientific Buddha was sent into battle against Christian missionaries, who were proclaiming acr...

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Business & Economics

Better Capitalism Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy

Litan Robert E., Schramm Carl J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146783, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerg...

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Architecture

High Life Condo Living in the Suburban Century

Lasner Matthew Gordon

ISBN: HB: 9780300164084, Yale University Press, August 2012
336 pp., 24.1x15.2 cm, 125 black&white illus.

Today, one in five home owners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family dwelling. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by declining real estate prices and a renewed interest in city living, many pr...

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