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Why X Matters

Why Writing Matters

Delbanco Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300245974, Yale University Press, May 2020
296 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and Jam...

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Biography & Memoires

Business & Economics

Julius Rosenwald Repairing the World

Diner Hasia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203219, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) rose from modest means as the son of a peddler to meteoric wealth at the helm of Sears, Roebuck. Yet his most important legacy stands not upon his business acumen but on the pioneering changes he introduced to the practic...

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Contemporary Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonne of the Monotypes

Dackerman Susan, Roberts Jennifer L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229370, Yale University Press, October 2017
332 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 242 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

Jasper Johns (b. 1930) is arguably the most important living American artist, and his work is central to any history of postwar art. With extensive new scholarship based on original research and interviews with the artist, "Jasper Johns: Catalogue Ra...

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America

Little Histories

Little History of the United States

Davidson James West

ISBN: PB: 9780300223484, ISBN: HB: 9780300181418, Yale University Press, February 2017
344 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 11 maps, 40 black&white illus.

How did a land and people of such immense diversity come together under a banner of freedom and equality to form one of the most remarkable nations in the world? Everyone from young adults to grandparents will be fascinated by the answers uncovered i...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Joshua 1-12 A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

Dozeman Thomas B.

ISBN: HB: 9780300149753, Yale University Press, July 2015
600 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 black&white maps

An acknowledged expert on the Hebrew Bible, Thomas Dozeman offers a fresh translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts of the book of Joshua and explores the nature, function, and causes of the religious violence depicted therein. By blending the distin...

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Photography

Catalogue Raisonne

Timothy H. O'Sullivan The King Survey Photographs

Davis Keith F., Aspinwall Jane Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300179842, Yale University Press, February 2012
260 pp., 27.9x27.9 cm, 345 colour and black&white illus.

Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swathe of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer – Timothy O'Sullivan – who...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Psalms I 1-50

Dahood Mitchell

ISBN: PB: 9780300139563, Yale University Press, December 2007
380 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

"Psalms I (1-50)" is the first of a three-volume commentary on the biblical book of Psalms. It offers a unique, lively translation of the most beloved collection of poetry in Judeo-Christian sacred Scriptures. Based on his linguistic analysis of both...

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Christianity

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Psalms II 51-100

Dahood Mitchell

ISBN: PB: 9780300139570, Yale University Press, December 2007
432 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The bulk of Israel's religious poetry is preserved in the biblical book of "Psalms". In this volume, the second of three on the "Psalms", Mitchell Dahood, S. J. , interprets this Hebrew poerty in light of a rich ancient collection of Ugaritic texts....

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Christianity

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Psalms III 101-150

Dahood Mitchell

ISBN: PB: 9780300139587, Yale University Press, December 2007
546 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This is Volume 17A of "The Anchor Bible", a new book-by-book translation of the Bible, each complete with an introduction and notes. "Psalms III (101-150)" is translated and edited by Mitchell Dahood, S. J. , Professor of Ugaritic Language and Litera...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

History of the Synoptic Problem The Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels

Dungan David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140583, Yale University Press, December 2007
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"A History of the Synoptic Problem", by David Laird Dungan, is an accessible, academic study of a question that has needled readers of the New Testament since before the Bible was canonized: How does one reconcile the different accounts of Jesus' lif...

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