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Architecture

Charles Percier Revolutions in Architecture and Design

Garric Jean-Philippe, Bedard Jean-Francois, Sarmant Thierry, Cochet Vincent, Tedeschi Letizia, Lievaux Pascal, Droguet Vincent, Moon Iris, Belhoste Jean-Francois, Dion-Tenenbaum Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780300221589, Yale University Press, October 2016
304 pp., 28.6x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this publication surveys the magnificent spectrum of projects undertaken by French architect and interior designer Charles Percier (1764-1838). After gaining an illustrious reputation for supervising the sc...

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Literary Criticism

Writers and Rebels The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus

Gould Rebecca Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300200645, Yale University Press, October 2016
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of anticolonial insurgency. Rebecca...

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Biography & Memoires

Blanche of Castile, Queen of France

Grant Lindy

ISBN: HB: 9780300219265, Yale University Press, September 2016
456 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This is the first modern scholarly biography of Blanche of Castile, whose identity has until now been subsumed in that of her son, the saintly Louis IX. A central figure in the politics of medieval Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated patron of religi...

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Landscape Architecture

Cornelia Parker The Roof Garden Commission

Galilee Beatrice, Wagstaff Sheena

ISBN: PB: 9781588395931, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2016
64 pp., 18.4x11 cm, 55 colour illus.

Turner Prize-nominated British artist Cornelia Parker (b. 1956) is well known for her large-scale, site-specific installations. Her work has been featured in many solo exhibitions and is included in collections around the world. Often composed of ord...

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America

Founders as Fathers The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Glover Lorri

ISBN: PB: 9780300219746, ISBN: HB: 9780300178609, Yale University Press, August 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America's great Founding Fathers – men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and int...

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History of Art

Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the "Belle Epoque"

Goldfarb Hilliard T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223668, Yale University Press, August 2016
128 pp., 31.1x24.1 cm, 250 colour illus.

The celebrated French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) created works that epitomize the theatricality, elegance, and decadence of late-19th-century Paris. This beautifully illustrated book features a selection of Toulouse-Lautrec's drawin...

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Christianity

Eastern Orthodox Christianity The Essential Texts

Geffert Bryn, Stavrou Theofanis George

ISBN: PB: 9780300196788, Yale University Press, July 2016
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.

Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world. Designed specifically for students and accessible to readers with little or no previous knowledge of theology or...

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Political Science

Presidential Government

Ginsberg Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300212068, Yale University Press, July 2016
488 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 black&white illus.

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presid...

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Political Science

Beyond Crimea The New Russian Empire

Grigas Agnia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214505, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial...

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Political Science

Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe

Galbraith James K.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220445, Yale University Press, June 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The economic crisis in Greece is a potential international disaster and one of the most extraordinary monetary and political dramas of our time. The financial woes of this relatively small European nation threaten the long-term viability of the Euro...

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