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Contemporary Art

Joan Mitchell

Roberts Sarah, Siegel Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780300247275, Yale University Press, January 2021
384 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 350 illus.

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she expanded...

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America

Last Slave Ships New York and the End of the Middle Passage

Harris John

ISBN: HB: 9780300247336, Yale University Press, January 2021
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 21 black&white illus.

Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed by every major slave trading nation in the early nineteenth century, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the A...

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Anthropology

Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

Kreiner Jamie

ISBN: HB: 9780300246292, Yale University Press, January 2021
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 48 black&white illus.

In the early medieval West, from North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture. In this fascinating book, Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous species was integrated into early medieval ecologies and tra...

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Biography & Memoires

Life of Christina of Hane

Kirakosian Racha

ISBN: HB: 9780300250992, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life, but her recently unearthed case remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. Her disturbing account of vaginal mutilation, her competition with the Virgin Mary, and...

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Mathematics

Mathematics Lover's Companion Masterpieces for Everyone

Scheinerman Edward R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300255393, ISBN: HB: 9780300223002, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 106 black&white illus.

Twenty-three mathematical masterpieces for exploration and enlightenment. How can a shape have more than one dimension but fewer than two? What is the best way to elect public officials when more than two candidates are vying for the office? Is it p...

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History of Art

Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection

Hinton Jack, Gauthier Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780876332948, Yale University Press, January 2021
64 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 45 colour illus.

In 1930, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Edmond Foulc (1828-1916). Foulc's beautiful Paris residence was an important gathering place for like-minded art en...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Migrants in the Profane Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization

Gordon Peter E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250763, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Migrants in the Profane" takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theolog...

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Political Science

Why Liberalism Works How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

Nansen McCloskey Deirdre

ISBN: HB: 9780300235081, Yale University Press, December 2020
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The greatest challenges facing humankind, according to Deirdre McCloskey, are poverty and tyranny, both of which hold people back. Arguing for a return to true liberal values, this engaging and accessible book develops, defends, and demonstrates how...

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Contemporary Art

On the Viewing Platform The Panorama between Canvas and Screen

Trumpener Katie, Barringer Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300184792, Yale University Press, November 2020
324 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 160 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-...

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Europe

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Light and Flame

Butterwick Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300252200, Yale University Press, November 2020
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 8 maps

Richard Butterwick tells the compelling story of the last decades of one of Europe's largest and least understood polities: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Drawing on the latest research, Butterwick vividly portrays the turbulence the Commonwealt...

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