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Performing Arts

Lillian Hellman An Audacious Life

Gallagher Dorothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300164978, Yale University Press, March 2014
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Glamorous, talented, audacious – Lillian Hellman knew everyone, did everything, had been everywhere. By the age of twenty-nine she had written "The Children's Hour", the first of four hit Broadway plays, and soon she was considered a member of Americ...

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Architecture

Landscapes of London The City, the Country and the Suburbs 1660-1840

McKellar Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300109139, Yale University Press, December 2013
256 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 120 black&white illus., 24 colour images

The idea of a "Greater London" emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In "The Landscapes of London", Elizabeth McKellar traces this growth back to the 17th century, when domestic retreats were established in outlying ar...

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Europe

Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944 A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives

Bidlack Richard, Lomagin Nikita, Schwartz Marian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198164, Yale University Press, December 2013
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 74 black&white illus.

<p>Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-1944 siege o...

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Fiction

Lair

Manea Norman, Marian Oana Sanziana

ISBN: PB: 9780300198799, Yale University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, Norman Manea's novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Yet his diffic...

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Poetry

Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me And Other Poems

Zaqtan Ghassan, Joudah Fady

ISBN: PB: 9780300198409, ISBN: HB: 9780300173161, Yale University Press, November 2013
144 pp., 23.4x13 cm

In this inspired translation of "Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me", Ghassan Zaqtan's tenth and most recent poetry collection, along with selected earlier poems, Fady Joudah brings to English-language readers the best work by one of the most important...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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World

Little Histories

Little History of the World

Gombrich E. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197181, Yale University Press, October 2013
304 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 200 colour illus.

E. H. Gombrich's "Little History of the World", though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book...

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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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Philosophy

Labyrinth of the Continuum Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672-1686

von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr, Arthur Richard T. W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205053, Yale University Press, August 2013
574 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained...

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History

Little Histories

Little History of Science

Bynum William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197136, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...

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