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Jewish Studies

Israelis and the Jewish Tradition An Ancient People Debating Its Future

Hartman David

ISBN: PB: 9780300184112, Yale University Press, November 2011
194 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In this powerful book one of the most important Jewish thinkers in the world today grapples with issues that increasingly divide Israel's secular Jewish community from its religious Zionists. Addressing the concerns of both communities from the point...

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Music

Music of Alban Berg

Headlam Dave

ISBN: PB: 9780300184129, Yale University Press, November 2011
474 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

Austrian composer Alban Berg (1885-1935), along with his contemporaries Arnold Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, dramatically altered the musical landscape of the Western world. Dave Headlam offers a comprehensive analysis of Berg's music in this orig...

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Christianity

Miracles at the Jesus Oak Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167023, Yale University Press, October 2011
336 pp., 21x14 cm

In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...

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Christianity

Sunday A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167030, Yale University Press, October 2011
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

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Middle East

Biography & Memoires

Invisible Harry Gold The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb

Hornblum Allen M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177572, ISBN: HB: 9780300156768, Yale University Press, October 2011
464 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

In the history of Soviet espionage in America, few people figure more crucially than Harry Gold. A Russian Jewish immigrant who spied for the Soviets from 1935 until 1950, Gold was an accomplished industrial and military espionage agent. He was assig...

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Architecture

Inigo Jones The Architect of Kings

Hart Vaughan

ISBN: HB: 9780300141498, Yale University Press, September 2011
336 pp., 28x22 cm, 100 colour images, 130 black&white illus.

Inigo Jones (1573-1652) is widely acknowledged to have been England's most important architect. As court designer to the Stuart kings James I and Charles I, he is credited with introducing the classical language of architecture to the country. He fam...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Cheshire Buildings of England

Hartwell Clare, Hyde Matthew, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300170436, Yale University Press, September 2011
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This is a comprehensive guide to the buildings of Cheshire in all their variety, from Pennine villages to coastal plains and seaside resorts. Chester, the regional capital and cathedral city, is famous for its Roman walls and black-and-white timber a...

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Architecture

Venice Disputed Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600

Howard Deborah

ISBN: HB: 9780300176858, Yale University Press, September 2011
320 pp., 28x22 cm, 120 colour images, 120 black&white illus.

In the councils and magistracies of the Venetian Republic, politicians argued intently over civic building projects in a manner curiously reminiscent of a modern democracy, taking advice from architects, engineers, and members of the public. Written...

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Sea Life

Entirely Synthetic Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Halverson Anders

ISBN: PB: 9780300140880, Yale University Press, July 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of north...

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Culture Studies

Our Hero Superman on Earth

Haven Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780300171242, Yale University Press, June 2011
240 pp., 19.6x13 cm

Since his first appearance in "Action Comics" Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in...

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