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Literary Criticism

Why X Matters

Why Writing Matters

Delbanco Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300245974, Yale University Press, May 2020
296 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

In this new contribution to Yale University Press's Why X Matters series, a distinguished writer and scholar tackles central questions of the discipline of writing. Drawing on his own experience with mentors such as John Updike, John Gardner, and Jam...

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Business & Economics

Ecology

Slowdown The End of the Great Acceleration – and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

Dorling Danny

ISBN: HB: 9780300243406, Yale University Press, April 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 67 black&white illus.

Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per...

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Contemporary Art

Bill Brandt - Henry Moore

Droth Martina, Messier Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300251050, Yale University Press, March 2020
264 pp., 33x24.7 cm, 285 colour and black&white illus.

"The camera", said Orson Welles, "is a medium via which messages reach us from another world". It was the camera and the circumstances of the Second World War that first brought together Henry Moore (1898-1986) and Bill Brandt (1904-1983). During the...

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Computer Science & Internet

Internet in Everything Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch

DeNardis Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300233070, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

The Internet has leapt from human-facing display screens into the material objects all around us. In this so-called Internet of Things – connecting everything from cars to cardiac monitors to home appliances – there is no longer a meaningful distinct...

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Literary Criticism

Existentialism, 70 Years After Yale French Studies, Number 135/136

Du Graf Lauren, Elsky Julia, Faure Clementine

ISBN: PB: 9780300242669, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on t...

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Jewish Studies

Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization Volume 6: Confronting Modernity, 1750-1880

Dash Moore Deborah, Carlebach Elisheva

ISBN: HB: 9780300190007, Yale University Press, January 2020
600 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 133 colour images, 59 black&white illus.

A landmark project to collect, translate, and transmit primary material from a momentous period in Jewish culture and civilization, this volume covers what Elisheva Carlebach describes as a period "in which every aspect of Jewish life underwent the m...

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Performing Arts

Choreographer's Score Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartok

De Keersmaeker Anne Teresa, Cvejic Bojana

ISBN: PB: 9780300251296, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2020
248 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 150 black&white illus.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is one of the most prominent choreographers in contemporary dance. Her 1982 debut with Fase immediately attracted the attention of the international dance scene; since then, De Keersmaeker and her company, Rosas, have creat...

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America

Memory Lands King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast

DeLucia Christine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248388, Yale University Press, January 2020
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as "King Philip's War", providing an alternative to "Pilgrim-centric" narratives that have conventionally domin...

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Architecture

Thomas Jefferson, Architect Palladian Models, Democratic Principles, and the Conflict of Ideals

DeWitt Lloyd, Piper Corey, Neil Erik H., Burns Howard, Beltramini Guido, Guy Wilson Richard, Bergdoll Barry, Nelson Louis P., Wilson Mabel O.

ISBN: HB: 9780300246209, Yale University Press, January 2020
208 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm, 88 colour illus., 86 black&white illus.

Renowned as a politician and statesman, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was also one of the premier architects of the early United States. Adept at reworking Renaissance – particularly Palladian – and Enlightenment ideals to the needs of the new republi...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

In Pursuit of History A Lifetime Collecting Colonial American Art and Artifacts

Dietrich H. Richard, Rebuck Deborah M.

ISBN: HB: 9780876332931, Yale University Press, January 2020
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

This book showcases highlights from the Dietrich American Foundation, established in 1963 by H. Richard Dietrich Jr. and focused on 18th-century American fine and decorative arts. Essays explore the formation of the collection and its many areas of s...

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