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Literary Criticism

Middle East

Other Middle East An Anthology of Modern Levantine Literature

Salameh Franck

ISBN: HB: 9780300204445, Yale University Press, February 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This unique literary collection offers a window on the contemporary Levant, a region comprising most of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Cyprus, parts of southern Turkey and northwestern Iraq, and the Sinai Peninsula. Originally written in...

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Political Science

Europe

Ukrainian Night An Intimate History of Revolution

Shore Marci

ISBN: HB: 9780300218688, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day...

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History of Art

Art of Peales in Philadelphia Museum of Art Adaptations and Innovations

Soltis Carol Eaton

ISBN: HB: 9780300229363, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 225 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Active from the late 18th through the early 20th century, the Peale family was America's first artistic dynasty. This overview of the art of the Peales documents and interprets more than 160 works in a variety of media from the renowned collection of...

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History of Art

Ancient World

Horse in Ancient Greek Art

Stribling Nicole, Schertz Peter, Hemingway Sean, Mattusch Carol C., Oakley John, Pevnick Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.

Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...

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History of Art

Murillo The Self-Portraits

Salomon Xavier F., Treves Letizia, Alvarez-Garcillan Maria, Centeno Silvia, Garcia-Maiquez Jaime, Keith Larry, Mahon Dorothy, Ryder Nicole

ISBN: HB: 9780300225686, Yale University Press, November 2017
144 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 65 colour illus.

This beautiful publication accompanies an exhibition that brings together the only two known self-portraits by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), one of the finest painters of the Spanish Golden Age. Painted almost twenty years apart, these two r...

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Performing Arts

Utility

Schwend Emily, Wright Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780300224429, Yale University Press, November 2017
112 pp., 22.9x14 cm

Marking the tenth anniversary of the Yale Drama Series for emerging playwrights, Emily Schwend's powerful work centers on Amber, a young woman struggling to raise a family in East Texas. Amber is juggling two nearly full-time jobs and three kids. Her...

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History of Art

Monet Framing Life

Shaw Jill

ISBN: PB: 9780300229172, Yale University Press, November 2017
64 pp., 19.1x15 cm, 30 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

This beautiful publication highlights a treasured painting in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts – "Rounded Flower Bed" ("Corbeille de fleurs") by Claude Monet (1840-1926). The canvas was painted while Monet lived in the Paris suburb of...

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Political Science

Democratic Faith Essays on Democratic Citizenship

Sniderman Paul M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197099, Yale University Press, November 2017
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Modern political science has concentrated on cataloguing voters' failings – their lack of knowledge, tolerance, or consistency in political thinking. While it would be a mistake to think this portrait of citizens is simply wrong, it is a deeper mista...

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Military

Middle East

Words are Weapons Inside ISIS's Rhetoric of Terror

Salazar Philippe-Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300223224, Yale University Press, October 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close examination of the words and images ISIS uses, with particular attention to the "digital caliphate" on the web, Philippe-Joseph Salazar theorizes an aestheti...

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Political Science

Europe

Less You Know, Better You Sleep Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship Under Yeltsin and Putin

Satter David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230727, Yale University Press, October 2017
240 pp., 21x14 cm

<p>In December 2013, David Satter became the first American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War. The Moscow Times said it was not surprising he was expelled, "it was surprising it took so long". Satter is known in Russi...

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