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Poetry

Slow Lightning

Corral Eduardo C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178937, Yale University Press, May 2012
160 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Eduardo C. Corral is the 2011 recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, joining such distinguished previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and John Ashbery. Corral is the first Latino poet to win the competition. Seamlessly braidi...

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Architecture

Stirling and Gowan Architecture from Austerity to Affluence

Crinson Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300177282, Yale University Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.6x11.2 cm, 60 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

James Stirling (1924-1992) is acclaimed as the most influential and controversial modern British architect. His partnership with James Gowan (b. 1923) between 1956 and 1963 put postwar British architecture on the international map, and their Leiceste...

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Biography & Memoires

Sport

Joe DiMaggio The Long Vigil

Charyn Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9780300181470, Yale University Press, April 2012
192 pp., 21.1x14.2 cm

As the New York Yankees' star centre fielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in America's memory as the epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and that ineffable quality called "class". But his career after retirement, starting with his ni...

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Decorative Arts

Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

Clark Garth, Strauss Cindi, Adamson Glenn, Vecchio Mark, Shales Ezra, Veiteberg Jorunn, Burrows Keelin, Elliot Rebecca, Houston Laura, Zooey Martin Elliott

ISBN: HB: 9780300169973, Yale University Press, April 2012
576 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 702 colour illus.

As gallerists and collectors, Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio have helped shape the field of ceramics by expanding notions of the medium's possibilities. This comprehensive catalogue features, for the first time in its entirety, their esteemed colle...

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Law

Configuring the Networked Self Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice

Cohen Julie E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300125436, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The legal and technical rules governing flows of information are out of balance, argues Julie Cohen in this original analysis of information law and policy. Flows of cultural and technical information are overly restricted, while flows of personal in...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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Africa

Southern Africa Old Treacheries and New Deceits

Chan Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300184280, ISBN: HB: 9780300154054, Yale University Press, January 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In this timely and essential book, Stephen Chan explores the political landscape of southern Africa, examining how it's poised to change over the next years and what the repercussions are likely to be across the continent. He focuses on three countri...

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Law

Lawtalk The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Clapp James E., Thornburg Elizabeth G., Galanter Marc, Shapiro Fred R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300172461, Yale University Press, January 2012
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Law-related words and phrases abound in our everyday language, often without our being aware of their origins or their particular legal significance: boilerplate, jailbait, pound of flesh, rainmaker, and the third degree. This insightful and entertai...

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America

Notes from the Ground Science, Soil & Society in the American Countryside

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177701, ISBN: HB: 9780300139235, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

"Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Women of Byzantium

Connor Carolyn L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300186468, Yale University Press, January 2012
432 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.

Women played key roles in Byzantine society: some ruled or co-ruled the empire, and others commissioned art and buildings, went on pilgrimages, and wrote. This engrossing book draws on evidence ranging from pictorial mosaics and inscriptions on the w...

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