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Alice Aycock Drawings

Fineberg Jonathan, Sultan Terrie

ISBN: PB: 9780300191103, Yale University Press, May 2013
160 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 102 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Alice Aycock (b. 1946) emerged onto the New York art scene in the 1970s and is best known for her large-scale public sculptures that often combine an industrial appearance with references to weightlessness as well as to science and cosmology. Aycock...

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Law

American Illness Essays on the Rule of Law

Buckley Frank H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175219, Yale University Press, May 2013
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 black&white illus.

This provocative book brings together twenty-plus contributors from the fields of law, economics, and international relations to look at whether the U.S. legal system is contributing to the country's long postwar decline. The book provides a comprehe...

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Ancient World

Ancient Greece From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300160055, Yale University Press, May 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek civilization from its Stone Age roots to the fourth century B.C.E. Focusing on the development of the Greek city-state and the society, culture, and arch...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

Arch Conjuror of England John Dee

Parry Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300194098, Yale University Press, April 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527-1609) was one of the most colourful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book – the first full-l...

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History of Art

Arts of India, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia at the Dallas Museum of Art

Bromberg Anne R., Asher Catherine B., Asher Frederick M., Clark Robert W., Tingley Nancy

ISBN: HB: 9780300149883, Yale University Press, March 2013
264 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian Temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and rit...

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Arabic

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Intermediate Text

Alosh Mahdi, Clark Allen

ISBN: HB + DVD: 9780300178777, Yale University Press, February 2013
432 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm, 90 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Designed for students at the intermediate level who are continuing to develop overall proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic, this book follows Mahdi Alosh's popular "Ahlan wa Sahlan" beginner's text. The narrative follows two young characters whose p...

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Christianity

Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Europe

Ambition, a History From Vice to Virtue

King William

ISBN: HB: 9780300182804, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

From log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to office of the CEO, ambition drives the American Dream. Americans are a nation of people driven by ambition. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous v...

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Contemporary Art

Angels, Demons, and Savages Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet

Kosinski Dorothy M., Ottmann Klaus, Longwell Alicia G., Dubuffet Jean, Steele Elizabeth, Albro Sylvia, Homolka Scott, Bernicky Chantal

ISBN: HB: 9780300186482, Yale University Press, January 2013
168 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 84 colour images, 16 black&white illus.

The artistic relationships among Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Alfonso Ossorio (1916-1990), and Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) strongly influenced the development of postwar art. Ossorio, the central figure in the trio, was an early champion of Pollock and...

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History of Art

Art of the Actual Naturalism and Style in Early Third Republic France

Thomson Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300179880, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

The French Republic – with its rallying cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity – emerged in 1870, and by 1880 had developed a coherent republican ideology. The regime pursued secular policies and emphasized its commitment to science and technology...

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