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Photography

Palestinians Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day

Sanbar Elias

ISBN: HB: 9780300212181, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 duotone illus.

A crossroads of religions, politics, and cultures with deep symbolic and historical significance, the holy land of Palestine has a resonance far greater than its size. Notably, the centuries-old conflict there has catapulted this tiny area to the cen...

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Contemporary Art

Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008

Frank Robin Jaffee, Denson Charles, Glick Josh, Kasson John F., Musser Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300189902, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 228 colour illus., 77 black&white illus.

Called "America's playground", Coney Island is a world-famous resort and national cultural symbol that has inspired music, literature, and films. This groundbreaking book is the first to look at the site's enduring status as inspiration for artists t...

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Europe

Wellington The Path to Victory 1769-1814

Muir Rory

ISBN: PB: 9780300205480, Yale University Press, March 2015
744 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 32 illus., maps, plans

The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain's greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a m...

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History of Art

Machine Age Modernism Prints from the Daniel Cowin Collection

Clarke Jay A., Black Jonathan, Kosinski Megan

ISBN: PB: 9780300211665, Yale University Press, March 2015
80 pp., 23.5x22.9 cm, 50 colour illus.

This group of 40 prints from the exceptional Daniel Cowin Collection captures the tumultuous aesthetic and political climate of the years surrounding World Wars I and II. An essay by Jonathan Black addresses the impact of World War I on two notable B...

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Biography & Memoires

Silence Was Salvation Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union

Frierson Cathy A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179453, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist Era, the sons and daughters of peasants, workers, scientists, physicians, and political leaders considered by the regime to be dangerous to the...

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History of Art

Buddhist Art of Myanmar

Fraser-Lu Sylvia, Stadtner Donald M., Chain U Tun Aung, Leider Jacques, Pranke Patrick, Brown Robert, Tan Heidi, Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300209457, Yale University Press, March 2015
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collection...

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Criminology

Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder

Swaan Abram de Swaan

ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...

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Military

Europe

France 1940 Defending the Republic

Nord Philip G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300189872, Yale University Press, March 2015
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

In this revisionist account of France's crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation's downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France's diplomatic and military preparations for war with German...

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Architecture

Hawaiian Modern The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff

Britton Karla, Treib Marc, Sakamoto Dean, Frampton Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780300214161, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 36 colour illus., 243 black&white illus.

Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998), known as the "master of Hawaiian architecture", was at the forefront of the postwar phenomenon known as tropical modernism. Although he practiced at a time of rapid growth and social change in Hawaii, Ossipoff criticize...

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Political Science

Tyranny of the Moderns

Urbinati Nadia, Thom Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300182774, Yale University Press, March 2015
192 pp., 21x14 cm

In a well-reasoned and thought-provoking polemic, respected political theorist Nadia Urbinati explores a profound shift in the ideology of individualism, from the ethical nineteenth-century standard, in which each person cooperates with others as equ...

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