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Christianity

Good and Evil Serpent How a Universal Symbol Became Christianized

Charlesworth James H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140828, Yale University Press, April 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 143 black&white illus.

In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist could have made such a surprising analogy, James H. Charlesworth has...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Finamore Daniel, Houston Stephen D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161373, Yale University Press, April 2010
328 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 174 black&white illus., 192 colour illus.

Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...

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Culture Studies

Reading Matters Five Centuries of Discovering Books

Willes Margaret

ISBN: PB: 9780300164046, Yale University Press, April 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 black&white illus.

It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that until very recently books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book e...

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Christianity

Reason, Faith and Revolution Reflections on the God Debate

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300164534, Yale University Press, April 2010
200 pp., 21x14 cm

Terry Eagleton's witty and polemical "Reason, Faith, and Revolution" is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagle...

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History of Art

Art of Edo Japan The Artist and the City, 1615-1868

Guth Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300164138, Yale University Press, April 2010
176 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 109 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated survey examines the art and artists of the Edo period, one of the great epochs in Japanese art. Together with the imperial city of Kyoto and the port cities of Osaka and Nagasaki, the splendid capital city of Edo (now Tok...

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America

For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Berger Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300121315, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 125 illus.

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their...

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Europe

Hakluyt's Promise An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164220, ISBN: HB: 9780300110548, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 map, 44 black&white illus.

Richard Hakluyt the younger, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, advocated the creation of English colonies in the New World at a time when the advantages of this idea were far from self-evident. This book describes in detail the life and times of...

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Spanish

Transicion Hacia Un Espanol Avanzado a Traves De La Historia De Espana

Bilbao-Henry Josebe

ISBN: PB: 9780300142174, Yale University Press, April 2010
384 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 19 black&white illus.

"Transicion" is an intermediate to advanced Spanish language textbook which focuses on the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's regime. The textbook helps students to build critical thinking skills and to analyze unfamiliar topics through...

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Political Science

Philosophy

Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164237, Yale University Press, April 2010
400 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm

In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To disce...

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Ancient World

Empty Bottles of Gentilism Kingship and the Divine in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (to 1050)

Oakley Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300155389, Yale University Press, April 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this book – the first volume in his groundbreaking trilogy on the emergence of western political thought – Francis Oakley explores the roots of secular political thinking by examining the political ideology and institutions of Hellenistic and late...

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