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World

Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Performing Arts

Time We Share Reflecting on and through Performing Arts - One Introduction, Three Acts, and Two Intermezzos

Blanga-Gubbay Daniel, Kwakkenbos Lars, Bel Jerome, Castellucci Romeo, Lepecki Andre, Mouffe Chantal, Siegmund Gerald, Stengers Isabelle

ISBN: PB: 9780300211771, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, June 2015
400 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Belgium's Kunstenfestivaldesarts – a major international arts festival – this ambitious book examines a wide range of critical perspectives on two decades of performing arts. The authors look closely at performing arts...

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Health & Wellbeing

Hearing-Loss Guide Useful Information and Advice for Patients and Families

Burkey John M., Daniels Robert L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300207651, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

Although millions of people could use good advice about hearing loss, it turns out that asking is difficult, and accurate advice is hard to come by. This book directly addresses the problem: it provides useful, first-hand advice from people who have...

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Europe

World

Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Barthas Louis, Strauss Edward M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212488, Yale University Press, May 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceas...

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Contemporary Art

Revolution of the Eye Modern Art and the Birth of American Television

Berger Maurice, Spigel Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300207934, Yale University Press, May 2015
172 pp., 26x19 cm, 66 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

The aesthetics and concepts of modern art have influenced American television ever since its inception in the 1930s. In return, early television introduced the public to the latest trends in art and design. This engaging catalogue is the first book t...

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Biography & Memoires

Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity

Blake David

ISBN: PB: 9780300217131, Yale University Press, May 2015
270 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

What is the relationship between poetry and fame? What happens to a reader's experience when a poem invokes its author's popularity? Is there a meaningful connection between poetry and advertising, between the rhetoric of lyric and the rhetoric of hy...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Suffolk: East The Buildings of England

Bettley James

ISBN: HB: 9780300196542, Yale University Press, April 2015
680 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This authoritative survey of east Suffolk includes some of England's most beautiful landscapes, including "Constable Country", the land surrounding the River Stour that was home to John Constable. East Suffolk's rural landscape includes a variety of...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Suffolk: West The Buildings of England

Bettley James

ISBN: HB: 9780300196559, Yale University Press, April 2015
680 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

From small timber-framed houses to sprawling manors, this comprehensive guide to west Suffolk presents an impressive range of buildings from across the centuries. At its center lies the town of Bury St. Edmunds, site of one of Norman England's most p...

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History of Art

Monet | Kelly

Bois Yve-Alain, Lees Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9780300207873, Yale University Press, April 2015
96 pp., 24.1x21 cm, 45 colour illus.

Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948-1954) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-Ile off the coast of Brittan...

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America

Biography & Memoires

George I. Sanchez The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

Blanton Carlos Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300190328, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the ea...

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