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Archaeology & Paleontology

City of Gold The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus

Childs William A. P., Smith Joanna S., Padgett J. Michael, Caraher William, Najbjerg Tina, Papalexandrou Amy, Serwint Nancy, Weir Mary Grace

ISBN: PB: 9780300174397, Yale University Press, September 2012
400 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 225 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

The modern Cyprian town of Polis Chrysochous – "City of Gold" – lies above the city of Arsinoe and the earlier city – kingdom of Marion. In 1885 excavators began exploring the extensive cemeteries of these cities. Since 1983 the Princeton Cyprus Expe...

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Europe

Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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Biography & Memoires

I to Myself An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

Cramer Jeffrey S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187984, Yale University Press, September 2012
528 pp., 23.4x19.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

It was his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson, another inveterate journal keeper, who urged Thoreau to keep a record of his thoughts and observations. Begun in 1837, "Thoreau's Journal" spans a period of twenty-five years and runs to more than two million wo...

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Fashion

Handbags The Making of a Museum

Clark Judith, Evans Caroline, de la Haye Amy, Phillips Adam, Wilcox Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780300186185, Yale University Press, August 2012
272 pp., 27.9x23.5 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

The history of the handbag – its design, how it has been made, used, and worn – reveals something essential about women's lives lived over the last 500 years. Perhaps the most universal item of fashionable adornment, it can also be elusive, an object...

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Christianity

Book of Numbers, a Critique of Genesis

Carmichael Calum

ISBN: HB: 9780300179187, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this work Calum Carmichael – a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible – shows how each law and each narrative in "Numbers", the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative inc...

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History of Art

Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art

Clarke Jay A., Barringer Tim, Bermingham Ann, Broadway Mary, Blayney Brown David, Griffiths Antony, Lyles Anne, Noon Patrick, Paisley Leslie, Rauser Amelia F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...

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Biography & Memoires

Alfred Kazin's Journals

Cook Richard M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187953, ISBN: HB: 9780300142037, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 9 black&white illus.

At the time of his death in 1998, Alfred Kazin was considered one of the most influential intellectuals of postwar America. What is less well known is that Kazin had been contributing almost daily to an extensive private journal, which arguably conta...

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Literary Criticism

Milton Encyclopedia

Corns Thomas N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300094442, Yale University Press, June 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 52 black&white illus.

"The Milton Encyclopedia" offers easy and immediate access to a wealth of information about Milton. It will serve as a general and comprehensive reference tool for general readers, students, and scholars alike, enhancing the experience of reading Mil...

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Political Science

New Continentalism Energy and Twenty-first-century Eurasian Geopolitics

Calder Kent E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300171020, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 53 black&white illus.

In this groundbreaking book, Kent Calder argues that a new transnational configuration is developing in Asia, driven by economic growth, rising energy demand, and the collapse of longstanding geopolitical boundaries. What Calder calls the New Silk Ro...

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Decorative Arts

Lucie Rie Modernist Potter

Cooper Emmanuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300152005, Yale University Press, May 2012
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Lucie Rie (1902-1995), one of the twentieth century's most celebrated and iconic potters, combined an acute understanding of modernism with the skills of her chosen craft. During the course of her sixty-year career, she continually honed and refined...

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