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Hitler at Home

Stratigakos Despina

ISBN: PB: 9780300222920, Yale University Press, May 2017
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 colour illus., 71 black&white illus.

Adolf Hitler's makeover from rabble-rouser to statesman coincided with a series of dramatic home renovations he undertook during the mid-1930s. This provocative book exposes the dictator's preoccupation with his private persona, which was shaped by t...

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America

Slave's Cause A History of Abolition

Sinha Manisha

ISBN: PB: 9780300227116, Yale University Press, April 2017
784 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois...

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Europe

Lions and Lambs Conflict in Weimar and the Creation of Post-Nazi Germany

Strote Noah Benezra

ISBN: HB: 9780300219050, Yale University Press, April 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A bold new interpretation of Germany's democratic transformation in the twentieth century, focusing on a group of intellectuals who shaped the post-Nazi reconstruction. Not long after the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust, Germans rebuilt th...

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History of Art

Age of Empires Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties

Sun Zhixin, Hsing I-tien, Liu Cary Y., Lu Pengliang, Lan-ying Tseng Lillian, Yates Robin D. S., Hong Yang, Yakina Zhang Zhonglin

ISBN: HB: 9781588396174, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017
336 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 325 colour illus.

The first in-depth exploration of the artistic and cultural achievements of China's "classical" era. "Age of Empires" presents the art and culture of China during one of the most critical periods of its history – the four centuries from 221 B.C. to...

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Literary Criticism

Performing Arts

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

Sweet Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780300211443, Yale University Press, April 2017
304 pp., 21x14 cm

The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramatists. Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Lynn Nottage, A. R. Gurney, and a host of other major creative voices of the theater discuss...

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Nature

Long, Long Life of Trees

Stafford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300228205, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 60 black&white illus.

A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship wi...

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Ecology

Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris The Effort to Contain Global Warming

Sweet William

ISBN: PB: 9780300209631, Yale University Press, March 2017
256 pp., 21x14 cm

The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview o...

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Jewish Studies

Nemirovsky Question The Life, Death, and Legacy of a Jewish Writer in Twentieth-Century France

Suleiman Susan Rubin

ISBN: HB: 9780300171969, Yale University Press, February 2017
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

A fascinating look into the life and work of controversial French novelist Irene Nemirovsky Irene Nemirovsky succeeded in creating a brilliant career as a novelist in the 1930s, only to have her life cut short: a "foreign Jew" in France, she was depo...

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History of Art

Epic Tales from Ancient India Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art

Sardar Marika, Poddar Neeraja, Adamjee Qamar, Patel Alka

ISBN: HB: 9780300223729, Yale University Press, January 2017
156 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 127 colour illus.

Exploring the topic of narrativity in Indian art, this beautiful and deeply researched book considers illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, the Ramayana, the Ragamala, and a range of texts in the Persian language, notably the Shahnama. Featuring stu...

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Asia

Asian America A Primary Source Reader

Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Wong K. Scott, Chang Jason Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300195446, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a w...

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