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Rise of Thomas Cromwell Power and Politics in the Reign of Henry VIII, 1485-1534

Everett Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223514, ISBN: HB: 9780300207422, Yale University Press, September 2016
376 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 16 black&white illus.

How much does the Thomas Cromwell of popular novels and television series resemble the real Cromwell? This meticulous study of Cromwell's early political career expands and revises what has been understood concerning the life and talents of Henry VII...

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Media Studies

Between Truth and Time A History of Soviet Central Television

Evans Christine Elaine

ISBN: PB: 9780300208481, ISBN: HB: 9780300208436, Yale University Press, August 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews,...

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Political Science

Europe isn't Working

Elliott Larry, Atkinson Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300221923, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years after its creation, British journalists Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson assess its performance to show why. Looking at a range of key indicators the a...

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Contemporary Art

History of Art

Art History and Emergency Crises in the Visual Arts and Humanities

English Darby, Breslin David

ISBN: PB: 9780300218756, Yale University Press, April 2016
200 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 36 black&white illus.

"Art History and Emergency" assesses art history's role and responsibilities in what has been described as the "humanities crisis" – the perceived decline in the practical applications of the humanities in modern times. This timely collection of crit...

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America

G.I. Messiahs Soldiering, War, and American Civil Religion

Ebel Jonathan H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300176704, Yale University Press, December 2015
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Jonathan Ebel has long been interested in how religion helps individuals and communities render meaningful the traumatic experiences of violence and war. In this new work, he examines cases from the Great War to the present day and argues that our no...

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Architecture

Palladio Virtuel

Eisenman Peter, Roman Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780300213881, Yale University Press, December 2015
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 297 colour illus., 51 black&white illus.

Many historians of architecture have viewed the villas of Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) as physical manifestations of the classical architectural principles described in his treatise The Four Books of Architecture (I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura). W...

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Asia

Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Culture and the Death of God

Eagleton Terry

ISBN: PB: 9780300212334, Yale University Press, June 2015
264 pp., 21x14 cm

How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural critic, investigates in this thought-provoking book the contradictions, difficulties and significance of the...

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Poetry

Blue Yodel

Elkins Ansel, Phillips Carl

ISBN: PB: 9780300210026, ISBN: HB: 9780300210033, Yale University Press, May 2015
88 pp., 21x14 cm

Originated in 1919 to showcase the works of exceptional American poets under the age of forty, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize is the oldest annual literary award presented in the United States. Ansel Elkins's poetry collection, "Blue Yodel",...

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Design

Eames Anthology Articles, Film Scripts, Interviews, Letters, Notes, and Speeches

Eames Charles, Eames Ray, Ostroff Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780300203455, Yale University Press, April 2015
420 pp., 24.8x19 cm, 94 colour illus., 129 black&white illus.

"An Eames Anthology" collects for the first time the writings of the esteemed American architects and designers Charles and Ray Eames, illuminating their marriage and professional partnership of fifty years. More than 120 primary-source documents and...

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