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Ecology

Nature

Disconnected Rivers Linking Rivers to Landscapes

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194708, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems....

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Performing Arts

Dance Claimed Me A Biography of Pearl Primus

Schwartz Peggy, Schwartz Murray M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187939, ISBN: HB: 9780300155341, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Pearl Primus (1919-1994) blazed onto the dance scene in 1943 with stunning works that incorporated social and racial protest into their dance aesthetic. In "The Dance Claimed Me", Peggy and Murray Schwartz, friends and colleagues of Primus, offer an...

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Europe

World

December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...

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Interior Design

History of Art

Designing Antiquity Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace

Moser Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300187076, Yale University Press, August 2012
320 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

In the 19th century, designers became involved in the public presentation of the past, focusing specifically on the decoration of historical monuments. By exploring ornamental designs and the way they represented the cultural concerns of distant civi...

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Poetry

Delmira Agustini, Sexual Seduction, and Vampiric Conquest

Login Jrade Cathy

ISBN: HB: 9780300167740, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Delmira Agustini (1886-1914) has been acclaimed as one of the foremost modernistas and the first major woman poet of twentieth-century Spanish America. Critics and the reading public alike were immediately taken by the originality and power of her ve...

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Biography & Memoires

Contemporary Art

Dieter Roth Diaries

Bradley Fiona, Buttner Andrea, Lowndes Sarah, Vos Jan, Roth Bjorn

ISBN: HB: 9780300185492, Yale University Press, July 2012
208 pp., 24.8x21 cm, 100 colour illus.

Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was an artist of astonishing breadth and diversity, producing graphics, drawings, paintings, sculptures, assemblages, and installation works involving sound recordings and video. He was also a composer, musician, poet, and wri...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Dundee and Angus Buildings of Scotland

Gifford John

ISBN: HB: 9780300141719, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

Dundee is the fourth largest of Scotland's cities and has some of the finest ecclesiastical, public, commercial and industrial buildings in the country, evidence of its Victorian pre-eminence as a port and manufacturing centre. But beyond the city li...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Diary

Gombrowicz Witold, translated by Lillian Vallee, new preface by Rita Gombrowicz

ISBN: PB: 9780300118063, Yale University Press, June 2012
800 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his "Diary" with one of literature's most memorable openings: Mond...

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Dictionaries

Dictionary of Modern Proverbs

Doyle Charles Clay, Mieder Wolfgang, Shapiro Fred R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300136029, Yale University Press, June 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

"There are no second acts". "It takes a village to raise a child". "Life is just a bowl of cherries". We may think of proverbs as expressions of ancient wisdom, but in fact new proverbs are constantly arising. This unique volume is devoted exclusivel...

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Philosophy

Death

Kagan Shelly

ISBN: PB: 9780300180848, Yale University Press, May 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning...

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