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Computer Science & Internet

Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Levy David M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm

From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...

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History of Art

Modern Painters, Old Masters The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War

Prettejohn Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300222753, Yale University Press, May 2017
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 130 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National Gallery in London, as well as the proliferation of widely available published reproductions, the art of the past became visible and accessible in Victorian...

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Literary Criticism

Medieval

Medievalism The Middle Ages in Modern England

Alexander Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300227307, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 colour illus.

Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England – from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, R...

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History of Art

Michelangelo and Sebastiano

Wivel Matthias, Barbieri Costanza, Baker-Bates Piers, Joannides Paul, Danesi Squarzina Silvia, Goudie Allison, Ede Minna Moore, Sliwka Jennifer, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781857096095, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance. Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851541)....

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Fiction

Polonica

Mountains of Parnassus

Milosz Czeslaw

ISBN: HB: 9780300214253, Yale University Press, March 2017
184 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

The Nobel laureate's unfinished science fiction novel-available in English for the first time ever Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1980, Czeslaw Milosz was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed poets and essayists. This outstanding tr...

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History of Art

Marsden Hartley's Maine

Cassidy Donna, Griffey Randall, Deming Richard, Finch Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...

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Ecology

Meeting of Land and Sea Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard

Foster David R., Hall Brian R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300214178, Yale University Press, March 2017
352 pp., 21.6x26 cm, 314 colour illus.

An eminent ecologist shows how an iconic New England island has been shaped by nature and human history, and how its beloved landscape can be protected. Full of surprises, bedecked with gorgeous photographs and maps, and supported by unprecedented h...

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Political Science

Master Plan ISIS, Al Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory

Fishman Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300221497, Yale University Press, February 2017
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020. Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materi...

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History of Art

Monet The Early Years

Shackelford George T. M., Shiff Richard, Thomson Richard, Callen Anthea, Desmarais Mary Dailey

ISBN: HB: 9780300221855, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 180 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at...

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Europe

Maisky Diaries The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London

Maisky Ivan, Gorodetsky Gabriel

ISBN: PB: 9780300221701, Yale University Press, November 2016
632 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

<p>Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries....

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