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Christianity

God's Library The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts

Nongbri Brent

ISBN: PB: 9780300248609, Yale University Press, January 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In this bold and groundbreaking book, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While b...

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America

Growing Up with the Country Family, Race, and Nation After the Civil War

Field Kendra Taira

ISBN: PB: 9780300248395, ISBN: HB: 9780300180527, Yale University Press, January 2020
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.

Following the lead of her own ancestors, Kendra Field's epic family history chronicles the westward migration of freedom's first generation in the fifty years after emancipation. Drawing on decades of archival research and family lore within and beyo...

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History of Art

Buddhism

How to Read Buddhist Art

Behrendt Kurt A.

ISBN: PB: 9781588396730, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2020
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 200 colour illus.

For more than 2,000 years, sublime works of art have been created to embody essential aspects of Buddhist thought, which developed and evolved as its practice spread from India to East Asia and beyond. "How to Read Buddhist Art" introduces this compl...

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Poetry

Joy 100 Poems

Wiman Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300248630, ISBN: HB: 9780300226089, Yale University Press, January 2020
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertise...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

In Pursuit of History A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts

Dietrich H. Richard, Rebuck Deborah M.

ISBN: HB: 9780876332931, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

This book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of s...

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Performing Arts

Choreographer's Score Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok

De Keersmaeker Anne Teresa, Cvejic Bojana

ISBN: PB: 9780300251296, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
248 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 black&white illus.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then, De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have creat...

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Film Studies

Miyazakiworld A Life in Art

Napier Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300248593, Yale University Press, January 2020
344 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 20 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

A thirtieth?century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red?haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit – what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide f...

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Biography & Memoires

Music

Irving Berlin New York Genius

Kaplan James

ISBN: HB: 9780300180480, Yale University Press, January 2020
424 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called – by George Gershwin, among others – the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. "Berlin has no place in American music", legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; "he is American musi...

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Christianity

Literary Theory and the New Testament

Dinkler Michal Beth, Collins John

ISBN: HB: 9780300219913, Yale University Press, January 2020
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

For at least a half century, scholars have been adopting literary approaches to the New Testament inspired by certain branches of literary criticism and theory. In this important and illuminating work, Michal Beth Dinkler uses contemporary literary t...

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Neurology

Think Tank Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience

Linden David J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248524, Yale University Press, January 2020
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Neuroscientist David J. Linden approached leading brain researchers and asked each the same question: "What idea about brain function would you most like to explain to the world?" Their responses make up this one-of-a-kind collection of popular scien...

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