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Contemporary Art

"Great and Mighty Things" Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection

Clemente Francesco, Cooke Lynne, Cubbs Joanne, Herman Bernard L., Percy Ann, Rhodes Colin, Zimmerman Cara

ISBN: HB: 9780300191752, Yale University Press, April 2013
288 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 235 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

The contemporary art world has been challenged and invigorated by outsider art – works by self-taught practitioners who, by definition, have little to do with mainstream art production, but are nonetheless actively engaged with the visual culture of...

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Europe

Northern Ireland The Reluctant Peace

Cochrane Feargal

ISBN: HB: 9780300178708, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this thoughtful and engaging book, Feargal Cochrane looks at Northern Ireland's "Troubles" from the late 1960s to the present day. He explains why, a decade and a half after the peace process ended in political agreement in 1998, sectarian attitud...

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History of Art

Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Drawings and Prints from the Clark

Clarke Jay A., Weaver Chapin Mary, Higonnet Anne, Kendall Richard, Wright Alastair

ISBN: PB: 9780300191936, Yale University Press, March 2013
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book offers a new look at works by notable French artists represented in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Colour reproductions of fifty-eight works – ranging from chalk drawings by Charles Francois Daubigny and Ed...

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French

French in Action, Textbook, Part 1 A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method

Capretz Pierre J., Abetti Beatrice, Germain Marie-Odile, Lydgate Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300176100, Yale University Press, February 2013
376 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 1120 scattered illus.

Since it was first published, "French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture – The Capretz Method" has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been...

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History of Art

Eye on a Century Modern and Contemporary Art from the Charles B. Benenson Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery

Chaffee Cathleen, Alcauskas Katherine D., Canonico Amy, Jaffee Frank Robin, Gross Jennifer R., Josten Jennifer, Luke Megan R., Orgeman Keely, Orr Emily M., Rich Sarah K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184945, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Eye on a Century" celebrates a cornerstone of the Yale University Art Gallery's holdings: the Charles B. Benenson Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. This major bequest includes works by a veritable pantheon of modern and contemporary artists...

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Europe

Polonica

Katyn A Crime Without Punishment

Cienciala Anna M., Lebedeva Natalia S., Materski Wojciech

ISBN: PB: 9780300195477, Yale University Press, January 2013
618 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The book shows the background and mechanics of the Soviet mass executions in spring 1940 of 14,500 Polish prisoners of war – army officers, police, gendarmes, and civilians – taken by the Red Army when it invaded eastern Poland in September 1939. The...

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Psychology

Life is with Others

Cohen Donald J., Martin Andres, King Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194593, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

One of the most influential child psychiatrists of the twentieth century, Donald J. Cohen (1940-2001) made groundbreaking contributions to the study of autism and developmental disabilities, Tourette's syndrome, developmental psychopathology, child p...

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Music

Musical Instrument

Saxophone

Cottrell Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300100419, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x19 cm

In the first fully comprehensive study of one of the world's most iconic musical instruments, Stephen Cottrell examines the saxophone's full social, historical and cultural trajectory, and considers how and why this instrument, with its idiosyncratic...

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America

From Peace to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761

Carey Brycchan

ISBN: HB: 9780300180770, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This is the first book to investigate the development of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends. Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including diaries and letters, Brycchan Carey reveals the...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Ayrshire and Arran The Buildings of Scotland

Close Rob, Riches Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300141702, Yale University Press, October 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Ayrshire and Arran is an area of striking contrasts. Its landscape ranges from dune-backed sands to rolling pastures to moors. The local architecture is similarly diverse, marrying natural beauty with industry and modernity. It is the county of Rober...

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