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Political Science

Politics, Health and Healthcare Selected Essays

Marmor Theodore R., Klein Rudolf

ISBN: HB: 9780300110876, Yale University Press, July 2012
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented...

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Law

Partly Laws Common to All Mankind Foreign Law in American Courts

Waldron Jeremy

ISBN: HB: 9780300148657, Yale University Press, June 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Should judges in United States courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in their rulings? In this book, Jeremy Waldron explores jurisprudential ideas that could underlie the Supreme Court's occasional recourse to foreign law, especially in constituti...

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Psychology

Psychology's Ghosts The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back

Kagan Jerome

ISBN: HB: 9780300178685, Yale University Press, April 2012
320 pp., 21x14 cm

This book is the product of long thought and profound concern about the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a brilliant thinker and leading researcher in the field, examines current popular practices and assumptions among psychologists. H...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Politics of the Food Supply U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy

Winders Bill, Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181869, Yale University Press, March 2012
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they h...

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Biography & Memoires

Palmerston A Biography

Brown David

ISBN: PB: 9780300177961, Yale University Press, February 2012
584 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) presided over a period of great political and social change. He served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in st...

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America

Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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Photography

Patti Smith Camera Solo

Lubowsky Talbott Susan, Monroe Erin

ISBN: PB: 9780300182293, Yale University Press, February 2012
96 pp., 21.6x17.8 cm, 70 tritone illus.

This captivating selection of 70 intimate black and white photographs conveys Patti Smith's singular experience as a photographer as it relates to many facets of her fascinating life and career. Exquisitely designed and produced, "Patti Smith: Camera...

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Music

Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges

Flanagan Robert J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300171938, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsi...

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History of Art

Princely Armor in the Age of Durer A Renaissance Masterpiece in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Terjanian Pierre

ISBN: PB: 9780300176315, Yale University Press, February 2012
60 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 40 colour images, 15 black&white illus.

This striking publication examines two masterful armours for man and horse recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the earliest complete European examples in existence, these German works demonstrate the superior design and craftsm...

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World

Problem of Slavery as History A Global Approach

Miller Joseph C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300113150, Yale University Press, February 2012
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

Why did slavery – an accepted evil for thousands of years – suddenly become regarded during the eighteenth century as an abomination so compelling that Western governments took up the cause of abolition in ways that transformed the modern world? Jose...

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