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History of Art

Military

LaRocca Donald

ISBN: PB: 9781588396297, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2017
176 pp., 26.7x20.3 cm, 175 colour illus.

This engaging book offers an introduction to and overview of armor in Europe from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, focusing in particular on the 16th century when plate armor reached its peak of stylistic beauty and functional perfection. Cr...

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Europe

Mob Town A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End

Bennett John

ISBN: HB: 9780300221954, Yale University Press, September 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Even before Jack the Ripper haunted its streets for prey, London's East End had earned a reputation for immorality, filth, and vice. John Bennett, a writer and tour guide who has walked and researched the area for more than thirty years, delves into...

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Contemporary Art

Sculpture Vertical, Horizontal, Closed, Open

Curtis Penelope

ISBN: HB: 9780300227222, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 290 black&white illus.

By taking simple ways of looking at sculpture, this book uncovers unexpected affinities between works of very different periods and types. From sundials to mirrors, from graves to way-markers, from fountains to contemporary art, a wide range of illus...

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Middle East

Islam

Black Banners of Isis The Roots of the New Caliphate

Wasserstein David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228359, Yale University Press, September 2017
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

With tremendous speed, the Islamic State has moved from the margins to the center of life in the Middle East. Despite recent setbacks, its ability to conquer and retain huge swaths of territory has demonstrated its skillful tactical maneuvering, ambi...

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History of Art

Modigliani Unmasked

Klein Mason, Nathanson Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300225495, Yale University Press, September 2017
172 pp., 29.8x20.3 cm, 165 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.

One of the great artists of the 20th century, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) is celebrated for revolutionizing modern portraiture, particularly in his later paintings and sculpture. "Modigliani Unmasked" examines the artist's rarely seen early works o...

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Europe

Tales from the Long Twelfth Century The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire

Huscroft Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228700, ISBN: HB: 9780300187250, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or...

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Philosophy

Monastery and Microscope Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality

Hasenkamp Wendy, White Janna R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218084, Yale University Press, September 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.

In 2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This e...

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Fiction

Walnut Mansion

Jergovic Miljenko, Dickey Stephen M., Pavetic-Dickey Janja

ISBN: PB: 9780300226980, Yale University Press, September 2017
456 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This grand novel encompasses nearly all of Yugoslavia's tumultuous twentieth century, from the decline of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires through two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the breakup of the nation, and the terror of th...

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America

Domestic Subjects Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature

Piatote Beth H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300227079, Yale University Press, August 2017
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

Amid the decline of U.S. military campaigns against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, assimilation policy arose as the new front in the Indian Wars, with its weapons the deployment of culture and law, and its locus the American Indian...

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Media Studies

Gender Studies

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Duffy Brooke Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...

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