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Architecture

Centre Pompidou Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and the Making of a Modern Monument

Dal Co Francesco

ISBN: HB: 9780300221299, Yale University Press, January 2017
168 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 43 colour illus., 89 black&white illus.

A lively intellectual biography of one of the 20th century's most iconic buildings The Centre Georges Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, is today considered an icon of contemporary Paris, the quintessence of a modern building, and a model for what a mu...

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America

United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776-1867

Marques Leonardo

ISBN: HB: 9780300212419, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern scholarship has focused on the American slave trade's impact within the United States, considera...

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Christianity

From Christ to Confucius German Missionaries, Chinese Christians, and the Globalization of Christianity, 1860-1950

Wu Albert Monshan

ISBN: HB: 9780300217070, Yale University Press, January 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

A bold and original study of German missionaries in China, who catalyzed a revolution in thinking among European Christians about the nature of Christianity itself In this accessibly written and empirically based study, Albert Wu documents how German...

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History of Art

Epic Tales from Ancient India Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art

Sardar Marika, Poddar Neeraja, Adamjee Qamar, Patel Alka

ISBN: HB: 9780300223729, Yale University Press, January 2017
156 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 127 colour illus.

Exploring the topic of narrativity in Indian art, this beautiful and deeply researched book considers illustrations to the Bhagavata Purana, the Ramayana, the Ragamala, and a range of texts in the Persian language, notably the Shahnama. Featuring stu...

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History of Art

J. Lockwood Kipling Bombay, the Punjab, South Kensington

Bryant Julius, Weber Susan, Swallow Deborah, Bryant Barbara, Marsden Christopher, Arburthnott Catherine, Khan Nadhra Shahbaz, Kemp Sandra, Hoffenberg Peter H., James Brother

ISBN: HB: 9780300221596, Yale University Press, January 2017
602 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 700 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) started his career as an architectural sculptor at the South Kensington Museum (today the Victoria and Albert Museum). Much of his life, however, was spent in British India, where his son Rudyard was born. He taught...

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History of Art

Venice and Drawing 1500-1800 Theory, Practice and Collecting

Whistler Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780300187731, Yale University Press, January 2017
380 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 130 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.

An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was h...

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America

Political Science

President and the Apprentice Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Gellman Irwin F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223521, Yale University Press, January 2017
816 pp., 22.7x14.7 cm, 32 black&white illus.

More than half a century after Eisenhower left office, the history of his presidency is so clouded by myth, partisanship, and outright fraud that most people have little understanding of how Ike's administration worked or what it accomplished. We kno...

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Travel

On the Trail A History of American Hiking

Chamberlin Silas

ISBN: HB: 9780300219111, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 21x14 cm, 26 black&white illus.

The first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth century urban walking clubs emerged in the United States. A little more than a century later, tens of millions of Am...

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Birds

House of Owls

Angell Tony

ISBN: PB: 9780300223422, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 23.5x17.8 cm, 94 black&white illus.

Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Chapman Cynthia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...

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