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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition

Totten Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...

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Biography & Memoires

Faulkner and Love The Women Who Shaped His Art

Sensibar Judith L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165685, ISBN: HB: 9780300115031, Yale University Press, September 2010
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 75 black&white illus.

This book is about the making of the writer William Faulkner. It is the first to inquire into the three most important women in his life – his black and white mothers, Caroline Barr and Maud Falkner, and the childhood friend who became his wife, Este...

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America

Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade

Bockstoce John R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.

This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...

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Europe

Fires of Faith Catholic England under Mary Tudor

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300168891, Yale University Press, August 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile repression, when a reactionary monarch launched a doomed attempt to reimpose Catholicism on an unwilling nation. Above all, the burning alive of more than 280 men and women for their re...

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Evolution

Nature

Forest Primeval The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests

Hickey Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780912532646, Yale University Press, August 2010
62 pp., 21x14 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Wood: perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This story describes what it...

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America

Military

Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence in Missouri's Civil War, 1861-1865

Geiger Mark W.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151510, Yale University Press, July 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

This highly original work explores a previously unknown financial conspiracy at the start of the American Civil War. The book explains the reasons for the puzzling intensity of Missouri's guerrilla conflict, and for the state's anomalous experience i...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Ford Madox Brown A Catalogue Raisonne (vol. 1 and 2)

Bennett Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780300165913, Yale University Press, June 2010
686 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 522 black&white illus., 458 colour illus.

Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893) is known predominantly for his close association, from 1848, with the "Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" and for his masterpiece, "The Last of England" (1852-1855), with its poignant imagery of a young emigrant couple aboard sh...

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History of Art

Archaeology & Paleontology

Fiery Pool The Maya and the Mythic Sea

Finamore Daniel, Houston Stephen D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300161373, Yale University Press, April 2010
328 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 174 black&white illus., 192 colour illus.

Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...

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America

For All the World to See Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Berger Maurice

ISBN: HB: 9780300121315, Yale University Press, April 2010
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 125 illus.

In 1955, shortly after Emmett Till was murdered by white supremacists in Mississippi, his grieving mother distributed to the press a gruesome photograph of his mutilated corpse. Asked why she would do this, she explained that by witnessing with their...

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Music

Performing Arts

French Opera A Short History

Giroud Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9780300117653, Yale University Press, April 2010
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

French opera is second only to Italian opera in the length, breadth and diversity of its history. Yet most people, if asked to come up with titles, could mention only a handful of titles – Carmen, Faust, Pelleas et Melisande, Samson et Dalila – a sma...

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