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Psychology

General

Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

Boyer Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...

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History of Art

Inventing Acadia Painting and Place in Louisiana

Pfohl Katie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300247312, Yale University Press, February 2020
250 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 160 colour illus.

With its dense forests and swamps, Louisiana captured the imagination of writers and painters who viewed its landscape as a fascinating, untamed wilderness. Starting in the 1820s when French emigres brought the Barbizon school to New Orleans, the sta...

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Fiction

Sleep of Memory

Modiano Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300248586, Yale University Press, February 2020
136 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy o...

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Photography

Dawoud Bey Two American Projects

Keller Corey, Sherman Elisabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300248500, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 32 duotones, 25 tritones, 29 colour illus.

Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) is an American photographer best known for his large-scale portraits of underrepresented subjects and for his commitment to fostering dialogue about contemporary social and political topics. Bey has also found inspiration in the...

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Mathematics

Mathematics for Human Flourishing

Su Francis, Jackson Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300237139, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 50 black&white illus.

For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, w...

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Business & Economics

Economists

Cook Mariana, Solow Robert M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300249972, Yale University Press, February 2020
200 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 90 black&white illus.

Providing illuminating profiles of ninety of the world's most prominent economists – from Nobel Prize winners and former Federal Reserve chairs to young scholars charting the future of the field – this stunning volume pairs full-page portraits by acc...

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Architecture

Eileen Gray, Designer and Architect

Pitiot Cloe, Stritzler-Levine Nina

ISBN: HB: 9780300251067, Yale University Press, February 2020
430 pp., 26.6x21.5 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The bo...

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Philosophy

New Science

Vico Giambattista, Taylor Jason, Miner Robert C., Mazzotta Giuseppe

ISBN: PB: 9780300191134, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.5 cm

"The New Science" is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised in 1730 and 1744, it calls for a reinterpretation of human civilization by tracing the stages of historical development shared by all so...

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Europe

Military

First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader

Fritz Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9780300251463, Yale University Press, February 2020
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus., 10 maps

After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals published memoirs claiming that their country's brilliant military leadership had been undermined by the Fuhrer's erratic decision making. The author of three highly acclaimed...

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Europe

Provincializing Global History Money, Ideas, and Things in the Languedoc, 1680-1830

Livesey James Gerard

ISBN: HB: 9780300237160, Yale University Press, February 2020
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

"Provincializing Global History" explores the subtle transformation of the coastal province of the Languedoc in the eighteenth century. Mining a wealth of archival sources, James Livesey unveils how provincial elites and peasant households unwittingl...

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