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Poetry

Mask for Janus

Merwin W. S., Auden W. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246384, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm

While Merwin's poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to "Biblical tales, Classical myth, l...

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Evolution

On the Backs of Tortoises Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Hennessy Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300232745, Yale University Press, January 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The Galapagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. Th...

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Law

Origins of Order Project and System in the American Legal Imagination

Kahn Paul W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243413, Yale University Press, January 2020
344 pp., 21x14 cm

Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of a subject; in a system, order is immanent in the world. In the former, order is made; in the...

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Architecture

Patch Atlas Integrating Design Practices and Ecological Knowledge for Cities as Complex Systems

Marshall Victoria J., Cadenasso Mary L., McGrath Brian P., Pickett Steward T. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239935, Yale University Press, January 2020
128 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 104 colour illus.

Using a new, hybrid approach to urban land cover classification as an impetus to bring ecologists and urban designers together, this atlas is a unique conceptual tool to describe and analyze cities as complex systems. It brings together over a decade...

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America

Memory Lands King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

DeLucia Christine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248388, Yale University Press, January 2020
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as "King Philip's War", providing an alternative to "Pilgrim-centric" narratives that have conventionally domin...

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Poetry

Poems

Dugan Alan, Fitts Dudley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246360, Yale University Press, January 2020
80 pp., 21x14 cm

The first of seven books of poetry published during Dugan's lifetime, "Poems" examines the unusual details of everyday subjects, including waterfalls, house plants, love, war, religion, and the Irish. Explorations inevitably arouse feelings of aliena...

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Decorative Arts

Porcelain Pugs: A Passion The T. & T. Collection

Dumortier Claire, Habets Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300246537, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 170 colour illus.

A treasure trove for dog-lovers and porcelain enthusiasts alike, this book celebrates a collection of more than 100 porcelain pugs, most of which were designed in the mid-18th century by Johann Joaquim Kنndler, the eminent modeler in the Meissen porc...

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Jewish Studies

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880

Dash Moore Deborah, Carlebach Elisheva

ISBN: HB: 9780300190007, Yale University Press, January 2020
600 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 133 colour images, 59 black&white illus.

A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the m...

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Biography & Memoires

Judaism

Rav Kook Everything is Rising

Mirsky Yehudah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248579, ISBN: HB: 9780300164244, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Rav Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935) was one of the most influential – and controversial – rabbis of the twentieth century. A maverick thinker, he combined strict traditionalism with an embrace of modernity and its heresies, Orthodoxy and tolerance, sc...

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Architecture

Ecology

Science for the Sustainable City Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

Pickett Steward T. A., Cadenasso Mary L., Grove J. Morgan, Irwin Elena G., Rosi Emma J., Swan Christopher M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300246285, ISBN: HB: 9780300238327, Yale University Press, January 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In a world of more than seven billion people – who mostly reside in cities and towns – the Baltimore Ecosystem Study is recognized as a pioneer in modern urban social-ecological science. After two decades of research, education, and community engagem...

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