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Film Studies

Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living Under Total Surveillance

Poitras Laura, Sanders Jay, Boumediene Lakhdar, Crawford Kate, Doctorow Cory, Eggers Dave, Magid Jill, Paglen Trevor, Snowden Edward, Steyerl Hito

ISBN: PB: 9780300217650, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

The filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, "war on terror", drone program, Guantanamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former...

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Contemporary Art

Photography

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 3: 1987-1993

Pardo Patrick, Dean Robert, Fer Briony, Baldessari John, Ruscha Ed

ISBN: HB: 9780300214895, Yale University Press, March 2016
528 pp., 29.2x25.1 cm, 450 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This handsome volume, the third of the John Baldessari (b. 1931) catalogue raisonne project, compiles 400-plus unique works of art made by the influential conceptual artist from 1987 through 1993. Here we see the artist's large-scale photo-based work...

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Fashion

Isaac Mizrahi

Pearlman Chee, Lehmann Ulrich, Taxter Kelly, Yaeger Lynn

ISBN: HB: 9780300212143, Yale University Press, March 2016
236 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 202 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

Beginning with Isaac Mizrahi's first fashion collection, which debuted to critical acclaim in 1986, and running though the present day, this stylish, lavishly illustrated book presents his signature couture collections. Mizrahi's exuberant couture st...

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Biography & Memoires

Psychology

Becoming Freud The Making of Psychoanalysis

Phillips Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300219838, ISBN: HB: 9780300158663, Yale University Press, March 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Becoming Freud" is the story of the young Freud – Freud up until the age of fifty – that incorporates all of Freud's many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life...

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Military

Somme

Prior Robin, Wilson Trevor

ISBN: PB: 9780300220285, Yale University Press, March 2016
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Despite superior air and artillery power, British soldiers died in catastrophic numbers at the Battle of Somme in 1916. What went wrong, and who was responsible? This book meticulously reconstructs the battle, assigns responsibility to military and p...

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History of Art

In the Courts of Religious Ladies Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents

Periti Giancarla

ISBN: HB: 9780300214239, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 85 colour illus., 110 black&white illus.

This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually a...

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Biochemistry

Madness and Memory The Discovery of Prions - A New Biological Principle of Disease

Prusiner Stanley B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216905, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most prestigious award for achievement in physiology or medicine. That he was the sole recipient of the award for the year was entirely appropriate, for his struggle to identify the age...

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Performing Arts

America

America Dancing From the Cakewalk to the Moonwalk

Pugh Megan

ISBN: HB: 9780300201314, Yale University Press, December 2015
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The history of American dance reflects the nation's tangled culture. Dancers from wildly different backgrounds learned, imitated, and stole from one another. Audiences everywhere embraced the result as deeply American. Using the stories of tapper Bil...

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Europe

Biography & Memoires

Imprudent King A New Life of Philip II

Parker Geoffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780300216950, Yale University Press, November 2015
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 colour illus.,14 black&white illus.

Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of t...

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Architecture

Design for Eternity Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas

Pillsbury Joanne, Sarro Patricia, Doyle James, Wiersema Juliet

ISBN: PB: 9781588395764, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
160 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

From the first millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century, artists from across the ancient Americas created small-scale architectural effigies to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic,...

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