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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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History of Art

Faces of Impressionism Portraits from the Musee d'Orsay

Shackelford George T. M., Cogeval Guy, Pludermacher Isolde, Rey Xavier

ISBN: PB: 9780300207736, Yale University Press, December 2014
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

"Faces of Impressionism" explores the development of the portrait in French painting and sculpture between 1860 and 1910 as showcased in one of the world's greatest collections of Impressionist art – the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Splendidly illustrated...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Ben-Gurion

Shapira Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780300180459, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

David Ben-Gurion cast an enormous shadow across his world, and his legacy in the Middle East and beyond continues to be hotly debated to this day. There have been many books written about the life and accomplishments of the Zionist icon and founder o...

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Political Science

Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

Shapiro Ian, Clark J. C. D., Calvert Jane E., Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: PB: 9780300167450, Yale University Press, December 2014
720 pp., 21x14 cm

A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defence of the rights and good sen...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Business & Economics

Bet Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future

Sabin Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300198973, Yale University Press, November 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the la...

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Performing Arts

Still

Silverman Jen, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300206357, Yale University Press, November 2014
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In this darkly comic exploration of loss, intimacy and motherhood, three women are joined by a baby who never lived. Morgan, in her middle years, is the grieving mother of a stillborn child. Elena, the failed midwife, burdened by guilt, is considerin...

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History of Art

American Paintings at Harvard Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826

Stebbins Theodore E., Renn Melissa, Anderson Virginia, Blunt Hannah, Grindlay Sandra, Lowrey Carol, Moore Charlotte Emans, Moore Kevin, Orcutt Kimberly, Polemis Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300153521, Yale University Press, November 2014
656 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 554 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolours, pastels and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Por...

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Astronomy

Journey of the Universe

Swimme Brian, Tucker Mary Evelyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300209433, ISBN: HB: 9780300171907, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 25x15 cm

Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...

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Biography & Memoires

Gandhi A Spiritual Biography

Sharma Arvind

ISBN: PB: 9780300209426, ISBN: HB: 9780300185966, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve – what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years – is self-realization, to see God face to face... All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in th...

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