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Europe

Day at Home in Early Modern England Material Culture and Domestic Life, 1500-1700

Hamling Tara, Richardson Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300195019, Yale University Press, October 2017
304 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 280 colour illus.

This fascinating book offers the first sustained investigation of the complex relationship between the middling sort and their domestic space in the tumultuous, rapidly changing culture of early modern England. Presented in an innovative and engaging...

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America

American West A New Interpretive History

Hine Robert V., Faragher John Mack, Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185171, Yale University Press, October 2017
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 228 black&white illus.

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it p...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South Buildings of England

Harman Ruth, Pevsner Nikolaus, Sharples Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300224689, Yale University Press, September 2017
924 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 118 colour illus., 61 black&white illus.

This authoritative guide, the companion to "Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North", covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century...

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Philosophy

Monastery and Microscope Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality

Hasenkamp Wendy, White Janna R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218084, Yale University Press, September 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

In 2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This e...

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Europe

Tales from the Long Twelfth Century The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire

Huscroft Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228700, ISBN: HB: 9780300187250, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or...

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Media Studies

Political Spectrum The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone

Hazlett Thomas Winslow

ISBN: HB: 9780300210507, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves. Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broad...

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Christianity

Hinduism

Little History of Religion

Holloway Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228816, Yale University Press, August 2017
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity's earliest days to our own contentious times In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Ri...

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Photography

Eugene Richards The Run of Time

Hostetler Lisa, Watson April M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300227178, Yale University Press, August 2017
252 pp., 28.6x28.6 cm, 155 colour and tritone illus.

The first publication to situate the work of Richards in the long photographic tradition that merges personal artistic vision with documentary practice. Eugene Richards (b. 1944) is a documentary photographer known for his powerful, unflinching expl...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics

Haywood Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222609, Yale University Press, June 2017
272 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 135 colour and black&white illus.

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to th...

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Contemporary Art

Art of Brutalism Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain

Highmore Ben

ISBN: HB: 9780300222746, Yale University Press, June 2017
276 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.

While most famously associated with numerous mid-century architects, Brutalism was a style of visual art that was also adopted by painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers. Taking into account Brutalist work by eminent artists such as Richa...

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