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Poetry

Little Histories

Little History of Poetry

Carey John

ISBN: HB: 9780300232226, Yale University Press, March 2020
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands of poems h...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Little Histories

Little History of Archaeology

Fagan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300243215, ISBN: HB: 9780300224641, Yale University Press, April 2019
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human histo...

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Business & Economics

Little Histories

Little History of Economics

Kishtainy Niall

ISBN: PB: 9780300234527, Yale University Press, May 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and the ideas of great thinkers in the field. What causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention i...

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Biography & Memoires

Law

Louis D. Brandeis American Prophet

Rosen Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300230710, ISBN: HB: 9780300158670, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

According to Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis was "the Jewish Jefferson", the greatest critic of what he called "the curse of bigness", in business and government, since the author of the Declaration of Independence. Published to commemorate the hund...

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Christianity

Hinduism

Little History of Religion

Holloway Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...

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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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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Gifford John, Walker Frank Arneil

ISBN: HB: 9780300215588, Yale University Press, November 2016
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire are among the least-explored counties in Scotland, but no other area can lay claim to their astounding diversity of character, from the wild remote moorland of the south to the landscape of the Clyde estuary in the north-...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Leonard Bernstein

Shawn Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780300219852, ISBN: HB: 9780300144284, Yale University Press, May 2016
368 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicentre of twentieth-century American musical life. His creative gifts knew no boundaries as he moved easily from the podium, to the piano, to television with his nationally celebrated Young People's Concerts, which i...

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Jewish Studies

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents

Wise Michael Owen

ISBN: HB: 9780300204537, Yale University Press, July 2015
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean contracts and letters prese...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Blum Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist

Birnbaum Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300189803, Yale University Press, July 2015
232 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Leon Blum (1872-1950) was many things: a socialist and political activist, leader of the Popular Front; a dedicated statesman who served as France's prime minister three times; a hero who courageously opposed anti-Semitism, Nazi aggression, and the p...

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