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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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History of Art

New Eyes on America The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville

Peterson Heyrman Joy, Delamaire Marie-Stephanie, Gordon Eric, Rockman Seth, Wierich Jochen

ISBN: PB: 9780300194500, Yale University Press, March 2013
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 129 colour images, 7 black&white illus.

During a tragically short career, Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) produced iconic works depicting mid-century America. Born in Baltimore and trained in Dusseldorf, Woodville painted 19th-century America in a new way. His paintings depict contempo...

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Geriatrics

Winning Strategies for Successful Aging

Pfeiffer Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300184020, Yale University Press, January 2013
192 pp., 21x14 cm

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for – and learned from – elderly people, addresses wi...

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Literary Criticism

Full Knowing Reader

Pucci Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194661, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this illuminating book, Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of an active and engaged reader. Pucci considers an array of texts from Homer to Pound, showing that the reader has become empow...

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Architecture

From Ornament to Object Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

Payne Alina

ISBN: HB: 9780300175332, Yale University Press, July 2012
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 62 colour images, 108 black&white illus.

In the late 19th century, an enduring preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects – cups, saucers, chairs, and tables – began to receive cri...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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History of Art

Metamorphosis Poems Inspired by Titian

Penny Nicholas, Agbabi Patience, Armitage Simon, Cope Wendy, Duffy Carol Ann, Greenlaw Lavinia, Harrison Tony, Heaney Seamus, Leviston Frances, Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781857095470, Yale University Press, July 2012
56 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 21 colour illus.

As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "Th...

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Current Affairs

Libya The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

Pargeter Alison

ISBN: HB: 9780300139327, Yale University Press, May 2012
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 20 black&white illus.

For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His eccentric leadership as the nation's "Brother Leader", his repressive regime, sponsorship of terrorist violence, unique vision of the...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1: 1956-1974

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Bois Yve-Alain, Baldessari John, Knight Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300174489, Yale University Press, March 2012
550 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 500 colour illus.

The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b. 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new and groundbreaking direction by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropr...

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Contemporary Art

Interviews with Artists, 1966-2011

Peppiatt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300176629, Yale University Press, March 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.

A renowned curator and respected insider of the international art scene since the mid-1960s, Michael Peppiatt has spent his professional life with many of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His close friendships and frequent studio visits with...

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