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Plague of Informers Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England

Weil Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300171044, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or l...

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Christianity

First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity

Wilken Robert Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300198386, Yale University Press, December 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the...

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Law

Hollow Justice A History of Indigenous Claims in the United States

Wilkins David E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119268, Yale University Press, November 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book, the first of its kind, comprehensively explores Native American claims against the United States government over the past two centuries. Despite the federal government's multiple attempts to redress indigenous claims, a close examination r...

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Architecture

Wunderkammer

Williams Tod, Tsien Billie

ISBN: HB: 9780300197983, Yale University Press, November 2013
240 pp., 14.6x21.6 cm, 300 colour illus.

Inspired by the idea of the "wunderkammer" ("wonder-room") or "cabinet of curiosities" that originated during the Renaissance, world-renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien invited 42 celebrated architects and designers from around the worl...

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Philosophy

Adam Smith's Pluralism Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments

Weinstein Jack Russell

ISBN: HB: 9780300162530, Yale University Press, October 2013
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offerin...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Generation Dada The Berlin Avant-Garde and the First World War

White Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300169034, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 20 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

For the Berlin Dadaists, their identity as a collective – Club Dada, to members – was an integral part of their artistic practice. But the circumstances that brought together the likes of George Grosz, John Heartfield, Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baa...

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Biography & Memoires

Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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History of Art

Imran Qureshi

Wagstaff Sheena, Alteveer Ian, Najat Haidar Navina

ISBN: PB: 9780300197754, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2013
65 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.

Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference...

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Landscape Architecture

Making of the English Gardener Plants, Books and Inspiration, 1560-1660

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300197266, Yale University Press, July 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners, botanists, scholars, and courtiers, and the burgeoning vernacu...

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General

Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty

Winter Jay, Teitelbaum Michael S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...

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