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St Petersburg Shadows of the Past

Kelly Catriona

ISBN: PB: 9780300219401, ISBN: HB: 9780300169188, Yale University Press, March 2016
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities – a place in which the past is at once ubiquitous and inescapably controversial. Yet outsiders are far more familiar with the city's pre-1...

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Music

Stalin's Music Prize Soviet Culture and Politics

Frolova-Walker Marina

ISBN: HB: 9780300208849, Yale University Press, March 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Marina Frolova-Walker's fascinating history takes a new look at musical life in Stalin's Soviet Union. The author focuses on the musicians and composers who received Stalin Prizes, awarded annually to artists whose work was thought to represent the b...

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Savage Shore Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

Seal Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780300220414, Yale University Press, March 2016
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled "Great Southland". In this enthralling history of early discover...

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Evolution

Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

Gurche John

ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...

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Performing Arts

Serial Black Face

Nabers Janine, Norman Marsha

ISBN: PB: 9780300211375, Yale University Press, November 2015
128 pp., 22.9x14 cm

The year is 1979 and a serial killer in Atlanta is abducting and murdering young black children. Against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, playwright Janine Nabers explores the emotional battleground where an African-American single mother wars wit...

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Asia

South China Sea The Struggle for Power in Asia

Hayton Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300216943, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

China's rise has upset the global balance of power, and the first place to feel the strain is Beijing's backyard: the South China Sea. For decades tensions have smouldered in the region, but today the threat of a direct confrontation among superpower...

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America

Sovereignty for Survival American Energy Development and Indian Self-Determination

Allison James Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300206692, Yale University Press, October 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native...

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Philosophy

Speed Limits Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Taylor Mark C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300216790, ISBN: HB: 9780300206470, Yale University Press, October 2015
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

We live in an accelerating world: faster computers, faster news, food, product cycles, bodies, kids, lives. Yet we seem to have less time than ever to reflect, enjoy leisure, or perhaps even play. How did this new world of speed emerge? Why does it s...

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Architecture

Space, Hope and Brutalism English Architecture, 1945-1975

Harwood Elain

ISBN: HB: 9780300204469, Yale University Press, September 2015
512 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 280 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

This is the first major book to study English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety. Challenging previous scholarship on the subject and uncovering vast amounts of new material at the boundaries between architectural and social history,...

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Polonica

Salvaged Pages Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust

Zapruder Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300205992, Yale University Press, September 2015
536 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprison...

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