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Anthropology

History of Art

Second Careers Two Tributaries in African Art

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246872, Yale University Press, January 2020
120 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 40 colour illus.

Recognizing the second lives of historical African artworks when they enter museum collections and addressing them in dialogue with the works of six established and emerging African artists, this book represents how today's practitioners are reformul...

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Public Health

Sick to Debt How Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care

Ubel Peter A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238464, Yale University Press, January 2020
216 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high-deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amoun...

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Law

Software Rights How Patent Law Transformed Software Development in America

Con Diaz Gerardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300228397, Yale University Press, January 2020
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Diaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and...

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Poetry

Some Trees

Ashbery John

ISBN: PB: 9780300246377, Yale University Press, January 2020
96 pp., 21x14 cm

Comparing him to T. S. Eliot, Stephanie Burt writes that Ashbery is "the last figure whom half of the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". After the publication of "Some Trees", selecting j...

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History of Art

Leonardo Experience a Masterpiece

Kharibian Leah

ISBN: PB: 9781857096606, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2020
72 pp., 27.1x22.8 cm, 50 colour illus.

This concise but innovative book, published to accompany an immersive digital exhibition at the National Gallery, London, focuses on a single Leonardo painting, and one of the artist's most celebrated: "The Virgin of the Rocks". The quarter-century p...

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Architecture

Thomas Jefferson, Architect Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals

DeWitt Lloyd, Piper Corey, Neil Erik H., Burns Howard, Beltramini Guido, Guy Wilson Richard, Bergdoll Barry, Nelson Louis P., Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246209, Yale University Press, January 2020
208 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 86 black&white illus.

Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance – particularly Palladian – and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republi...

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America

Biography & Memoires

Trials of Thomas Morton An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England

Mancall Peter C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230109, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Adding new depth to our understanding of early New England society, this riveting account of Thomas Morton explores the tensions that arose from competing colonial visions. A lawyer and fur trader, Thomas Morton dreamed of a society where Algonquian...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France

Guilluy Christophe, DeBevoise Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...

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Asia

Urban Hunters Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Hojer Lars, Pedersen Morten Axel

ISBN: HB: 9780300196115, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

"Urban Hunters" is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos...

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Poetry

Views of Jeopardy

Gilbert Jack, Fitts Dudley

ISBN: PB: 9780300246346, Yale University Press, January 2020
64 pp., 21x14 cm

In an essay on his own work in "19 New American Poets of the Golden Gate", Jack Gilbert writes that "I am by nature drawn to exigence, compression, selection... One of the special pleasures in poetry for me is accomplishing a lot with the least means...

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