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America

Conservatives Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History

Allitt Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300164183, Yale University Press, March 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This lively book traces the development of American conservatism from Alexander Hamilton and Daniel Webster to William F. Buckley, Jr. and Irving Kristol. Conservatism has assumed a variety of forms, historian Patrick Allitt argues, because it has be...

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Health & Wellbeing

No More Joint Pain

Abboud Joseph A., Abboud Soo Kim

ISBN: PB: 9780300164527, ISBN: HB: 9780300111750, Yale University Press, February 2010
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

Arthritis is a major cause of joint pain, but there are myriad others. This is the first book to provide everyday readers with a comprehensive guide to musculoskeletal disease and pain, from degenerative arthritis in the elderly to common sports inju...

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Islam

Political Science

Crisis of Islamic Civilization

Allawi Ali A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300164060, Yale University Press, February 2010
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

King Hussein of Jordan A Political Life

Ashton Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780300163957, Yale University Press, February 2010
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 black&white illus.

King Hussein of Jordan ascended the throne in 1953, at the age of seventeen. He inherited a country that was riven with instability; the entire Middle East was in disarray following the 1948 war and the creation of Israel, and across the region tradi...

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Photography

Denver A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1973-1974

Adams Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300141368, Yale University Press, July 2009
136 pp., 19.1x18 cm, 117 tritone illus.

"Denver" and "What We Bought", together with "The New West", form a loose trilogy of Robert Adams' work exploring the rapidly developing landscape of the Denver metropolitan area from 1968 through 1974. In the former two books, Adams created a compre...

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Arabic

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Beginners

Alosh Mahdi, Clark Allen

ISBN: HB: 9780300219890, Yale University Press, June 2009
704 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm, 396 colour illus., 47 black&white illus.

The second edition of this widely used text covers the first year of instruction in Modern Standard Arabic. It will teach students to read, speak, and write Arabic, while presenting an engaging story that involves Adnan, a Syrian student studying in...

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Arabic

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Letters and Sounds of the Arabic Language

Alosh Mahdi, Clark Allen

ISBN: PB: 9780300214468, Yale University Press, June 2009
182 pp., 27.7x21.6 cm

This new sound and script workbook is intended to be used and completed by students before they begin using the second edition of the Ahlan wa Sahlan textbook. The workbook helps students learn the alphabet, numerals, and sounds of the Arabic languag...

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Italian

Trame A Contemporary Italian Reader

Abbona-Sneider Cristina, Borra Antonello, Pausini Cristina

ISBN: PB: 9780300124958, Yale University Press, April 2009
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

"Trame: A Contemporary Italian Reader" brings together short stories, poems, interviews, excerpts from movie scripts and novels, and other works by 33 renowned authors. The readings cover familiar themes – youth, family, immigration, politics, women'...

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Architecture

Modernist Museum in Perspective The East Building, National Gallery of Art

Alofsin Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300121599, Yale University Press, March 2009
248 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 58 colour images, 207 black&white illus.

This fascinating book is the first critical examination of the East Building, I. M. Pei's celebrated addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Distinguished contributors consider this iconic building from various historical vantage...

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History of Art

Design

William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Interlacings

Arscott Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780300140934, Yale University Press, October 2008
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 60 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates in 1853 and lasted until Morris' death in 1896, despite their differences in temperament and in attitudes to political engagement. This friendship was...

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