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Contemporary Art

Mel Bochner Strong Language

Kleeblatt Norman L., Bochner Mel

ISBN: HB: 9780300197341, Yale University Press, July 2014
144 pp., 23.5x20.3 cm, 101 colour images, 11 black&white illus.

Mel Bochner (b 1940) is celebrated as a key Conceptual artist of the 1960s. Less well-known are his paintings made after that period: complex works based on an exploration of language, often crowded with typography in lush, contrasting hues that both...

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Architecture

Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India

Sears Tamara I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300198447, Yale University Press, July 2014
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

This pioneering book is the first full-length study of the matha, or Hindu monastery, which developed in India at the turn of the first millennium. Rendered monumentally in stone, the matha represented more than just an architectural innovation: it s...

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Literary Criticism

Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature

Heffernan James A. W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300195583, Yale University Press, July 2014
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer's "Odyssey" to Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" The giving and taking of hospitality are sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of...

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Contemporary Art

Jeff Koons A Retrospective

Rothkopf Scott, Damasio Antonio, Deitch Jeffrey, Graw Isabelle, Hochdorfer Achim, Kuo Michelle, Kushner Rachel, Lee Pamela M., Nagel Alexander, Surowiecki James

ISBN: HB: 9780300195873, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 33x27.9 cm, 200 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Examining the breadth and depth of thirty-five years of work by Jeff Koons (b. 1955), one of the most influential and controversial artists of the 20th century, this highly anticipated volume features all of his most famous pieces. In an engaging ove...

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Performing Arts

O'Neill Transformation of Modern American Theater

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300195576, Yale University Press, July 2014
320 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 250 black&white illus.

As the old ways of the commercial theatre were dying and American playwriting was in crisis, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center arose as a midwife to new plays and musicals, introducing some of the most exciting talents of our time (including August W...

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Literary Criticism

Humanist Comedy

Welsh Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780300197518, Yale University Press, July 2014
280 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and...

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Nature

Birthright People and Nature in the Modern World

Kellert Stephen R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205794, ISBN: HB: 9780300176544, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Human health and wellbeing is inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia – the study of human beings' inherent affinity for natu...

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Europe

Secret Cables of the Comintern, 1933-1943

Firsov Fridrikh Igorevich, Klehr Harvey, Haynes John Earl

ISBN: HB: 9780300198225, Yale University Press, July 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on secret and therefore candid coded telegraphs exchanged between Communist Party leaders around the world and their overseers at the Communist International (Comintern) headquarters in Moscow, this book uncovers key aspects of the history of...

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Performing Arts

Walpurgis Night

Erofeev Venedikt, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300159868, Yale University Press, July 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

"Walpurgis Night", by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright's homeland. Erofeev's dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the comic high-water maker of the Brezhnev era. "Walp...

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America

Political Science

Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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