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Current Affairs
General
End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future
Lemos Gerard
ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...
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Biography & Memoires
Living Man from Africa Jan Tzatzoe, Xhosa Chief and Missionary, and the Making of Nineteenth Century South Africa
Levine Roger S.
ISBN: PB: 9780300198294, ISBN: HB: 9780300125214, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm, 22 black&white illus.
Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change – one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on...
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Jewish Studies
Music
Most Musical Nation Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire
Loeffler James
ISBN: PB: 9780300198300, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
No image of prerevolutionary Russian Jewish life is more iconic than the fiddler on the roof. But in the half century before 1917, Jewish musicians were actually descending from their shtetl roofs and streaming in dazzling numbers to Russia's new cla...
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Philosophy
Why X Matters
Why Niebuhr Matters
Lemert Charles
ISBN: PB: 9780300192544, Yale University Press, July 2013
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of political lead...
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Education
Worth of the University
Levin Richard C.
ISBN: HB: 9780300197259, Yale University Press, July 2013
296 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 colour illus.
Published on the occasion of Richard C. Levin's retirement as president of Yale University, this captivating collection of speeches and essays from the past decade reflects both his varied intellectual passions and his deep commitment to university l...
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Anthropology
Dancing with the River People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
Lahiri-Dutt Kuntala, Samanta Gopa
ISBN: HB: 9780300188301, Yale University Press, June 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
This remarkable book provides a rare look at the microcosmic world of "hybrid landscapes" – an increasingly popular topic among geographers and environmentalists – by examining chars, which are part-land, part-water, low-lying, sandy masses within th...
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Contemporary Art
Mexico and American Modernism
Landau Ellen G.
ISBN: HB: 9780300169133, Yale University Press, June 2013
240 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 31 colour images, 78 black&white illus.
In the years between the two world wars, the enormous vogue of "things Mexican" reached its peak. Along with the popular appeal of its folkloric and pictorialist traditions, Mexican culture played a significant role in the formation of modernism in t...
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Military
Literary Spy The Ultimate Source for Quotations on Espionage & Intelligence
Lathrop Charles E.
ISBN: PB: 9780300203882, Yale University Press, June 2013
496 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, black&white illus.
"The Literary Spy" provides a unique view of the intelligence world through the words of its own major figures (and those fascinated with them) from ancient times to the present. CIA speechwriter and analyst Charles E. Lathrop has compiled and annota...
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Contemporary Art
Hotel Texas An Art Exhibition for the President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Longford Nicola
ISBN: HB: 9780300187564, Yale University Press, June 2013
112 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 120 colour and black&white illus.
The events associated with John F. Kennedy's death are etched into our nation's memory. This fascinating book tells a less familiar part of the story, about a special art exhibition organized by a group of Fort Worth citizens. On November 21, 1963, t...
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Architecture
Building Seagram
Lambert Phyllis
ISBN: HB: 9780300167672, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 52 colour images, 141 black&white illus.
The Seagram Building rises up over New York's Park Avenue with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distil...
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