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Political Science

Mobilizing Inclusion Transforming the Electorate Through Get-out-the-vote Campaigns

Bedolla Lisa Garcia, Michelson Melissa R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300166781, Yale University Press, September 2012
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities – and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Moshe Dayan Plow and Sword

Bar-On Mordechai

ISBN: HB: 9780300149418, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed, charismatic politician, he was admired for his leadership...

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Poetry

Mozart's Third Brain

Sonnevi Goran, Lesser Rika, Warren Rosanna

ISBN: PB: 9780300181821, Yale University Press, July 2012
240 pp., 21x14 cm

Winner of the 2006 Nordic Council's Literature Prize, Swedish writer Goran Sonnevi is undoubtedly one of the most important poets working today. In "Mozart's Third Brain", his thirteenth book of verse, he attempts "a commentary on everything" – polit...

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History of Art

Matisse In Search of True Painting

Rabinow Rebecca A., Aagesen Dorthe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188578, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

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History of Art

Metamorphosis Poems Inspired by Titian

Penny Nicholas, Agbabi Patience, Armitage Simon, Cope Wendy, Duffy Carol Ann, Greenlaw Lavinia, Harrison Tony, Heaney Seamus, Leviston Frances, Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781857095470, Yale University Press, July 2012
56 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 21 colour illus.

As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "Th...

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Current Affairs

Mexico Democracy Interrupted

Tuckman Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300160314, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover – after 71 years of PRI dominance – was hailed as the beginning of a ne...

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Culture Studies

Milk A Local and Global History

Valenze Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300188127, Yale University Press, July 2012
351 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the ritu...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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Biography & Memoires

My Dear Governess The Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann

Goldman-Price Irene

ISBN: HB: 9780300169898, Yale University Press, June 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849-1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her...

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General

Europe

Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New

Kete Kathleen

ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...

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