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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Brettell Richard R., Dombrowski Andre, Eisenman Stephen, Galvez Paul, House John, Kendall Richard, Kosinski Dorothy M., Le Normand-Romain Antoinette, Locke Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...

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Philosophy

Abandoned to Ourselves Being an Essay on the Emergence and Implications of Sociology in the Writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau...

Meyers Peter Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172058, Yale University Press, September 2013
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment – society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice – was primarily composed and animated by its most ambiv...

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Military

Europe

This Seat of Mars War and the British Isles, 1485-1746

Carlton Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300197143, Yale University Press, September 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 24 black&white illus.

Shakespeare was not exaggerating when he defined being a soldier as one of the seven ages of man. Over the early modern period, many millions of young men from the four corners of the present United Kingdom went to war, often – and most bloodily – ag...

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History of Art

Dreams and Echoes Drawings and Sculpture in the David and Celia Hilliard Collection

Folds McCullagh Suzanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300196245, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2013
224 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 180 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

Over the past 30 years, David and Celia Hilliard have amassed a remarkable collection of Old Master, 19th-century, and modern drawings, as well as of French sculpture from the 19th century, including significant drawings and sculptures by Claude Vign...

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Political Science

Parties Versus the People How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans

Edwards Mickey

ISBN: PB: 9780300198218, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that – so far – has proved intractable. After every election voters discover yet again that political "leaders" aren't leading. Instead they are simply qua...

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History of Art

Thomas Sully Painted Performance

Keyse Rudolph William, Eaton Soltis Carol

ISBN: HB: 9780300197419, Yale University Press, September 2013
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

Thomas Sully (1783-1872) painted some of the most dynamic personalities of the 19th century, including Queen Victoria, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette. Although he created more than two thousand portraits and subject paintings, his ful...

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Architecture

Sheldonian Theatre Architecture and Learning in Seventeenth-Century Oxford

Geraghty Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300195040, Yale University Press, September 2013
168 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 45 colour images, 22 black&white illus.

A jewel of the University of Oxford, the Sheldonian Theatre stands out among the groundbreaking designs by the great British architect Sir Christopher Wren. Published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the building's construction, this meticul...

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Architecture

Magnificent Entertainments Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals

Doderer-Winkler Melanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300186420, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 133 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

A thoroughly original study of ephemeral architecture and design, "Magnificent Entertainments" examines the spectacular displays created for large-scale public and private celebrations in the Georgian period. The book focuses on a number of specific...

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Contemporary Art

Rebirth Recent Work by Mariko Mori

Tezuka Miwako, Littman Brett, Iida Takayo

ISBN: HB: 9780300196887, Yale University Press, September 2013
176 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 80 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

Contemporary artist Mariko Mori (b. 1967) has transformed herself many times since her memorable debut on to the international art scene in the mid-1990s. Over the past two decades, Mori has made a significant shift in the focus of her work, moving a...

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Military

World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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