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Biography & Memoires

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Harvey Milk His Lives and Death

Faderman Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9780300248555, ISBN: HB: 9780300222616, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Harvey Milk – eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck – was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, but he had not even served a full year in office when he was shot by a homophobic fellow supervisor. Milk's assassination at the a...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Kinship by Covenant A Canonical Approach to the Fulfillment of God's Saving Promises

Hahn Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300248432, ISBN: HB: 9780300140972, Yale University Press, November 2019
608 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

While the canonical scriptures were produced over many centuries and represent a diverse library of texts, they are unified by stories of divine covenants and their implications for God's people. In this deeply researched and thoughtful book, Scott H...

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Philosophy

Karl Marx Philosophy and Revolution

Avineri Shlomo

ISBN: HB: 9780300211702, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Matthew within Sectarian Judaism

Kampen John

ISBN: HB: 9780300171563, Yale University Press, August 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

What did it mean for members of a Jesus movement in the first century to promote their understanding of Jewish history and of the Jewish way of life? John Kampen explores the nature of sectarianism in Jewish society at the time of Matthew's compositi...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois, and Offaly Buildings of Ireland

TierneyAndrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300232042, Yale University Press, July 2019
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

This comprehensive guide covers the historically rich and nuanced territory of Central Leinster, from the western borderlands of the medieval English Pale to the wild expanse of the Bog of Allen and further west to Clonmacnoise, cradle of early monas...

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Judaism

Christianity

Temple in Early Christianity Experiencing the Sacred

Regev Eyal

ISBN: HB: 9780300197884, Yale University Press, June 2019
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The first scholarly work to trace the Temple throughout the entire New Testament, this study examines Jewish and Christian attitudes toward the Temple in the first century and provides both Jews and Christians with a better understanding of their res...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Einstein His Space and Times

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780300244373, ISBN: HB: 9780300196719, Yale University Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the brilliant innovator whose Theory of Relativity forever reshaped our understanding of time was a man of his times...

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Political Science

Jabotinsky A Life

Halkin Hillel

ISBN: PB: 9780300244380, ISBN: HB: 9780300136623, Yale University Press, May 2019
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and is one of the most misunderstood Zionist political leaders – a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, and founder of the branch of Zionism now headed by...

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Philosophy

Martin Buber A Life of Faith and Dissent

Mendes-Flohr Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300153040, Yale University Press, May 2019
440 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

An authority on the twentieth-century philosopher Martin Buber (1878-1965), Paul Mendes-Flohr offers the first major biography in English in thirty years of this seminal modern Jewish thinker. Organized around several key moments – such as his sudden...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Sussex: West Buildings of England

Williamson Elizabeth, Hudson Tim, Musson Jeremy, Nairn Ian, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300225211, Yale University Press, May 2019
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National Park. The county's small towns and villages feature a pleasing mix of stone, timber, and brick houses of every period...

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