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Europe

Defining Nations Immigrants and Citizens in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America

Herzog Tamar

ISBN: PB: 9780300178319, Yale University Press, April 2011
334 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Callenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as...

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Architecture

Dubuffet as Architect

Abadie Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300176612, Yale University Press, March 2011
168 pp., 26x20 cm, 160 illus.

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) was one of the major painters of the twentieth century, but his architectural achievements have commanded less attention until now. This oversight is all the more surprising in the light of his being awarded The American Ins...

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Fiction

Deadly Dinner Party & Other Medical Detective Stories

Edlow Jonathan A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171266, Yale University Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm

Picking up where Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives left off, "The Deadly Dinner Party" presents fifteen edge-of-your-seat, real-life medical detective stories written by a practicing physician. Award-winning author Jonathan Edlow shows the doct...

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Political Science

Disappearing Center Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Democracy

Abramowitz Alan I.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168297, ISBN: HB: 9780300141627, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 22.1x14.7 cm, 41 black&white illus.

In this timely book, renowned political scientist Alan Abramowitz presents a groundbreaking argument that the most important divide in American politics is not between left and right but rather between citizens who are politically engaged and those w...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Death of the Shtetl

Bauer Yehuda

ISBN: PB: 9780300167931, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm

In this book Yehuda Bauer, an internationally-acclaimed Holocaust historian, recounts the destruction of the shtetls, small Jewish towns in Poland and Russia, at the hands of the Nazis in 1941-1942. Bauer brings together all available documents, test...

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Contemporary Art

Dieter Roth Tischmatten

Rosen Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300170795, Yale University Press, January 2011
150 pp., 27.2x23.1 cm

Dieter Roth's unique and eclectic Tischmatten ("Table Mats") incorporate drawings, paintings, photographs, and ephemeral materials. Roth placed these grey cardboard mats on tables in his apartment, studios, and houses, collecting what he referred to...

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America

Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

Cumings Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780300168006, Yale University Press, October 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.

America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...

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Cartoon Art

Doonesbury and the Art of G. B. Trudeau

Walker Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300154276, Yale University Press, October 2010
304 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 239 black&white illus., 167 colour illus.

Best known for his wry and incisive takes on American life and politics through the comic strip "Doonesbury", Garry Trudeau is among the world's most widely read cartoonists. Trudeau began shaping "Doonesbury" as an undergraduate contributor to the "...

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History of Art

Decorating the "Godly" Household Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain

Hamling Tara

ISBN: HB: 9780300162820, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art, with the rich artistic heritage of the medieval period eradicated and replaced by an austere Protestant culture of the word. According to this view, religiou...

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Architecture

Design

Designing Tomorrow America's World's Fairs of the 1930s

Rydell Robert W., Schiavo Laura Burd

ISBN: HB: 9780300149579, Yale University Press, September 2010
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 102 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

In the midst of the Great Depression, America's World's Fairs of the 1930s gave hope to millions, sustaining the assembled with visions of future progress. These grand expositions in Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, Cleveland, New York and San Francisco s...

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