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Landscape Architecture

Fonkenell Guillaume, Corey Laura D., Deitz Paula, Guenther Bruce, Kennel Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300197372, Yale University Press, December 2013
160 pp., 25.4x30.5 cm, 100 colour and black&white illus.

The Tuileries Garden is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world's most iconic public art spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape architect Andre Le Notre, it served the now-destroyed Tuileries Palace. It was opened to the public in 16...

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Asia

Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962 An Oral History

Xun Zhou

ISBN: HB: 9780300184044, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1958, China's revered leader Mao Zedong instituted a programme designed to transform his giant nation into a Communist utopia. Called the Great Leap Forward, Mao's grand scheme – like so many other utopian dreams of the 20th century – proved a mon...

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Jewish Studies

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Social History of Hebrew Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period

Schniedewind William M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176681, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system and, as such, tightly interwoven into the lives of the prophets, poets, scribes and priests who used i...

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Architecture

Landscapes of London The City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660-1840

McKellar Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300109139, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 120 black&white illus., 24 colour images

The idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In "The Landscapes of London", Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying ar...

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Performing Arts

Rituals of Rented Island Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980

Sanders Jay, Hoberman J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195866, Yale University Press, December 2013
176 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 140 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: "object theater" (in which artists engage directly with the objects in the world around them); "loft performance" (where artists performed in lofts, s...

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Culture Studies

Gender Studies

Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish

Smith Marquard

ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.

Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...

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Business & Economics

Barley, Gold, or Fiat Toward a Pure Theory of Money

Quint Thomas, Shubik Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300188158, Yale University Press, December 2013
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Using simple but rigorously defined mathematical models, Thomas Quint and Martin Shubik explore monetary control in a simple exchange economy. Examining how money enters, circulates, and exits an economy, they consider the nature of trading systems a...

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Europe

Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives

Bidlack Richard, Lomagin Nikita, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198164, Yale University Press, December 2013
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 74 black&white illus.

<p>Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-1944 siege o...

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History of Art

American West in Bronze, 1850-1925

Tolles Thayer, Smith Thomas B., Clark Carol, Dippie Brian W., Hassrick Peter H., Lemmey Karen, Murphy Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780300197433, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2013
256 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 245 colour images and black&white illus.

"Themes of the American West" have been enduringly popular, and The American West in Bronze features sixty-five iconic bronzes that display a range of subjects, from portrayals of the noble Indian to rough-and-tumble scenes of rowdy cowboys to tribut...

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Performing Arts

Beautiful Province

Coo Clarence, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300195460, Yale University Press, December 2013
144 pp., 21x14 cm

A fifteen-year-old boy decides to accompany his severely depressed high school French teacher on a road trip to the Canadian province of Quebec, where the mother tongue of Voltaire and Balzac is still spoken and cherished. Clarence Coo's mesmerizing...

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