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Literary Criticism

Full Knowing Reader

Pucci Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194661, Yale University Press, January 2013
286 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this illuminating book, Joseph Pucci contends that the key to grasping the meaning of an allusive text is in the hands of an active and engaged reader. Pucci considers an array of texts from Homer to Pound, showing that the reader has become empow...

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Literary Criticism

Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Wills Garry

ISBN: PB: 9780300188004, Yale University Press, January 2013
200 pp., 18.9x12.8 cm

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that a Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his...

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Jewish Studies

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 10: 1973-2005

Dash Moore Deborah, Gertz Nurith

ISBN: HB: 9780300135534, Yale University Press, January 2013
1280 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 169 colour images, 58 black&white illus.

This first published volume in the 'Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization' introduces readers to the diversity of Jewish civilization since 1973. The volume vividly demonstrates the interaction of Jewish ideas and themes across continents...

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Biography & Memoires

Menachem Begin A Life

Shilon Avi, Zilberberg Danielle, Sharett Yoram

ISBN: HB: 9780300162356, Yale University Press, January 2013
584 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.

Menachem Begin, father of Israel's right wing and sixth prime minister of the nation, was known for his unflinchingly hawkish ideology. And yet, in 1979 he signed a groundbreaking peace treaty with Egypt for which he and Egyptian president Anwar Sada...

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Africa

Of Africa

Soyinka Wole

ISBN: PB: 9780300198331, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing...

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Culture Studies

Stolen Legacy of Anne Frank Meyer Levin, Lillian Hellman, and the Staging of the Diary

Melnick Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780300194630, Yale University Press, January 2013
306 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

As one of the first American journalists to enter the newly liberated concentration camps in the closing days of the Holocaust, Meyer Levin wished the world to know of the horror he had found. Seizing upon Anne Franks Diary as a poignant voice to tel...

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America

Yale, 1900-2001 Volume 1 & 2: Yale College Twentieth Century - a History in Present Time; Whiffenpoofs - Twentieth Century

Nash Gould Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300047592, Yale University Press, January 2013
556 pp., 25x15 cm

This slipcased, two-volume set includes: "Yale College Twentieth Century", and "A History in Present Time". Beginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, VOLUME I is a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excer...

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Photography

Jean-Luc Moulene Opus + One

Diserens Corinne, Fer Briony, Joseph Manuel, McDonough Tom, Raymond Yasmil, Toufic Jalal, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188820, Yale University Press, January 2013
264 pp., 29.2x19.1 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the late 1980s, Jean-Luc Moulene (b. 1955) has developed a body of work informed by a critical investigation of artistic authorship, addressing such issues as autonomy, immanence, and anarchic politics. Although he is best known for his enigmat...

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Psychology

Life is with Others

Cohen Donald J., Martin Andres, King Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194593, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

One of the most influential child psychiatrists of the twentieth century, Donald J. Cohen (1940-2001) made groundbreaking contributions to the study of autism and developmental disabilities, Tourette's syndrome, developmental psychopathology, child p...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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