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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Poetry

Stanzas in Meditation

Stein Gertrude, Hollister Susannah, Setina Emily, Retallack Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300153095, Yale University Press, January 2012
400 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable "Stanzas in Meditation". Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein's poem exists in several versions: a manuscript tha...

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Europe

Serbs History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia

Judah Tim

ISBN: PB: 9780300158267, Yale University Press, November 2011
368 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 40 black&white illus

"The Serbs" was published in hardcover in 1997, and paperbacked in 1998. It was reissued as a NB paperback in 2000, and reprinted regularly since then. There is a lot to catch-up on in this second edition. It covers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow...

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Contemporary Art

Sol Lewitt Structures, 1965-2005

Freedman Susan K., Baume Nicholas, Haidu Rachel, Lovatt Anna, Madura Joe, Swenson Kirsten

ISBN: HB: 9780300178616, Yale University Press, November 2011
226 pp., 30.4x25.7 cm, 150 colour illus.

Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. Throughout his career, however, L...

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Political Science

Strategies for School Equity Creating Productive Schools in a Just Society

Gittell Marilyn J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184105, Yale University Press, November 2011
270 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In the pursuit of a first-rate education for all students, America's public schools have struggled to achieve fuller racial integration and higher academic standards. Yet sharp inequities between prosperous school districts and poorer districts remai...

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Biography & Memoires

Savonarola The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

Weinstein Donald

ISBN: HB: 9780300111934, Yale University Press, November 2011
352 pp., 23.9x16.3 cm

Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century millenarian friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the centre of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culminatio...

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Jewish Studies

Settlers And the Struggle Over the Meaning of Zionism

Taub Gadi

ISBN: PB: 9780300177640, ISBN: HB: 9780300141016, Yale University Press, October 2011
240 pp., 21x14 cm

The controversy over settlements in the occupied territories is a far more intractable problem for Israel than is widely perceived, Gadi Taub observes in this illuminating book. The clash over settlement is no mere policy disagreement, he maintains,...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Somerset: North and Bristol Buildings of England

Foyle Andrew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300126587, Yale University Press, October 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This fully revised survey is the essential companion to the architecture of one of England's most rewarding regions. The Georgian spa of Bath and the medieval cathedral city of Wells are deservedly famous, each the finest of its kind in the country....

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Biography & Memoires

Sacco-Vanzetti Affair America on Trial

Temkin Moshik

ISBN: PB: 9780300177855, Yale University Press, October 2011
344 pp., 23.4x15.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.

What began as the obscure local case of two Italian immigrant anarchists accused of robbery and murder flared into an unprecedented political and legal scandal as the perception grew that their conviction was a judicial travesty and their execution a...

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Christianity

Sunday A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167030, Yale University Press, October 2011
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

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