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Architecture

Court, Country, City Essays on British Art and Architecture, 1660-1735

Hallett Mark, Llewellyn Nigel, Myrone Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300214802, Yale University Press, May 2016
544 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 208 colour illus.

The late 17th and early 18th centuries saw profound changes in Britain and in its visual arts. This volume provides fresh perspectives on the art of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods, focusing on the concepts, spaces, and audiences of court,...

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Evolution

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices

Jarvis Devra I., Hodgkin Toby, Brown Anthony H. D., Tuxill John, Noriega Isabel Lopez, Smale Melinda, Sthapit Bhuwon, Samper Cristian

ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...

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Literary Criticism

Curiosity

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300219807, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different...

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Literary Criticism

Charand-O Parand Revolutionary Satire from Iran, 1907-1909

Dehkhoda Ali Akbar, Afary Janet, Perry John R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197990, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

A classic of Modern Persian literature, Charand-o Parand (Stuff and Nonsense) is a work familiar to every literate Iranian. Originally a series of newspaper columns written by scholar and satirist Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the pieces poke fun at mullahs, t...

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History of Art

Military

Civil War in Art and Memory

Savage Kirk

ISBN: HB: 9780300214680, Yale University Press, May 2016
292 pp., 28x22.2 cm, 88 colour illus., 57 black&white illus.

Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a v...

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Music

General

Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...

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Cultural Studies

Culture of Food in England, 1200-1500

Woolgar C. M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181913, Yale University Press, March 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 pp. black&white illus.

In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technolo...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Cursed Legacy The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

Spotts Frederic

ISBN: HB: 9780300218008, Yale University Press, February 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann's comparatively short life was as artistically productive as it was devastatingly dislocated. Best-known today as the autho...

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Contemporary Art

Contingent Beauty Contemporary Art from Latin America

Ramirez Mari Carmen

ISBN: HB: 9780300214819, Yale University Press, December 2015
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 180 colour illus.

Exploring cutting-edge techniques and daring themes, many Latin American artists seamlessly intertwine aesthetic refinement with biting critiques of social and political issues. "Contingent Beauty" assembles major works by more than 20 such artists w...

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Culture Studies

Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class

Timberg Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...

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