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Pevsner Architectural Guides

Powys Buildings of Wales

Scourfield Robert, Haslam Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300185089, Yale University Press, November 2013
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

The historic counties of Montgomeryshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire are described in this final volume of the Buildings of Wales series, expanded and revised from the first edition of 1979. Prehistoric hill-forts and standing stones, Roman encampme...

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History of Art

Painting under Pressure Reputation and Demand in Renaissance Florence

O'Malley Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9780300197976, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 25 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

In late 15th-century Italy, there was a growing demand for goods of all types, including art. Painting under Pressure shows how the increased desire for art objects exerted significant pressure on highly sought-after painters. Michelle O'Malley analy...

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Political Science

Parties Versus the People How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans

Edwards Mickey

ISBN: PB: 9780300198218, Yale University Press, September 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that – so far – has proved intractable. After every election voters discover yet again that political "leaders" aren't leading. Instead they are simply qua...

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Military

World

Perilous Glory The Rise of Western Military Power

France John

ISBN: PB: 9780300197174, ISBN: HB: 9780300120745, Yale University Press, September 2013
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

This expansive book surveys the history of warfare from ancient Mesopotamia to the Gulf War in search of a deeper understanding of the origins of Western warfare and the reasons for its eminence today. Historian John France explores the experience of...

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Europe

Practicing Stalinism Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition

Getty J. Arch

ISBN: HB: 9780300169294, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white tables

In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office-holding was far less important than proxi...

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Christianity

Protestant Interest New England After Puritanism

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205046, Yale University Press, August 2013
226 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious his...

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History of Art

Paula Modersohn-Becker The First Modern Woman Artist

Radycki J. Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300185300, Yale University Press, May 2013
256 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 64 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

Considered one of the most important of the early German modernists, the painter Paula Modersoln-Becker (1876-1907) challenged traditional representations of the female body in art. She was the first modern woman artist to paint herself nude, as well...

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Photography

Photography of the American Civil War

Rosenheim Jeff L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300191806, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
256 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Six hundred thousand lives were lost between 1861 and 1865, making the conflict between North and South the nation's deadliest war. If the "War Between the States" was the test of the young republic's commitment to its founding precepts, it was also...

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Fashion

Punk Chaos to Couture

Bolton Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780300191851, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. With its eclectic mixing of stylistic references, punk effectively introduced the postmodern concept of bricolage not only into directional ready-to-wear but also into t...

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Literary Criticism

Education

Promiscuous "Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Avishai Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300192414, ISBN: HB: 9780300151909, Yale University Press, April 2013
240 pp., 21x14 cm

The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers – some delighted, oth...

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