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Photography

Abelardo Morell The Universe Next Door

Siegel Elizabeth, Abbott Brett, Martineau Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300184556, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2013
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 55 colour illus., 75 duotone illus.

Over the past twenty-five years, Abelardo Morell (b. 1948) has earned international praise for his images that use the language of photography to explore visual surprise and wonder. Born in Havana, Cuba, Morell came to the United States as a teenager...

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Political Science

What Changed When Everything Changed 9/11 and the Making of National Identity

Margulies Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300176551, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

In this stirring protest over the direction of America's political conversation since the events of September 11, 2001, Joseph Margulies traces the evolving direction of American discourse. He shows how certain ideas that once seemed clearly antithet...

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America

Time No Longer Americans After the American Century

Smith Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300176568, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Americans cherish their national myths, some of which predate the country's founding. But the time for illusions, nostalgia, and grand ambition abroad has gone by, Patrick Smith observes in this original book. Americans are now faced with a choice: b...

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History of Art

Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Middle East

Political Science

Forgotten Palestinians A History of the Palestinians in Israel

Pappe Ilan

ISBN: PB: 9780300184327, Yale University Press, June 2013
320 pp., 23.8x16.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948 conflict. Occupying a precarious middle ground between the Jewish citizens of Israel and the d...

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Biography & Memoires

Europe

William Beckford First Prime Minister of the London Empire

Gauci Perry

ISBN: HB: 9780300166750, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era....

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Law

Captured by Evil The Idea of Corruption in Law

Underkuffler Laura S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300173147, Yale University Press, June 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

One of the most powerful words in the English language, "corruption" is also one of the most troubled concepts in law. According to Laura Underkuffler, it is a concept based on religiously revealed ideas of good and evil. But the notion of corruption...

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Photography

William Henry Fox Talbot Beyond Photography

Dean Katrina, Ramalingam Chitra, Robson Eleanor, Brusius Mirjam, Smith Graham, Schaaf Larry J., Schaffer Simon, Wolf Herta

ISBN: HB: 9780300179347, Yale University Press, June 2013
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was a British pioneer in photography, yet he also embraced the wider preoccupations of the Victorian Age – a time that saw many political, social, intellectual, technical, and industrial changes. His manuscripts,...

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Biography & Memoires

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance A Portrait in Black and White

Bernard Emily

ISBN: PB: 9780300192520, Yale University Press, June 2013
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 41 black&white illus.

Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance, a black movement, come to understand itself. "Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance" is grounded in the dramas occasioned...

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Anthropology

Dancing with the River People and Life on the Chars of South Asia

Lahiri-Dutt Kuntala, Samanta Gopa

ISBN: HB: 9780300188301, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

This remarkable book provides a rare look at the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" – an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists – by examining chars, which are part-land, part-water, low-lying, sandy masses within th...

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