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Lair

Manea Norman, Marian Oana Sanziana

ISBN: PB: 9780300198799, Yale University Press, November 2013
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, Norman Manea's novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Yet his diffic...

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Architecture

Houses of Louis Kahn

Marcus George H., Whitaker William

ISBN: HB: 9780300171181, Yale University Press, November 2013
280 pp., 26.7x23.5 cm, 100 colour images, 150 black&white illus.

Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in Bangladesh. However, the...

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Fiction

Rimbaud the Son

Michon Pierre, Gladding Jody, Deshays Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300172652, Yale University Press, November 2013
96 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

"Rimbaud the Son", widely celebrated upon its publication in France, investigates the life of a writer, the writing life, and the art of life-writing. Pierre Michon in his groundbreaking work examines the storied life of the French poet Arthur Rimbau...

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Ancient World

Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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Biography & Memoires

Robespierre A Revolutionary Life

McPhee Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300197242, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictat...

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History of Art

Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

MacDonald Heather, Brettell Richard R., Dombrowski Andre, Eisenman Stephen, Galvez Paul, House John, Kendall Richard, Kosinski Dorothy M., Le Normand-Romain Antoinette, Locke Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.

"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...

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Business & Economics

New Industrial Revolution Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production

Marsh Peter T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197235, ISBN: HB: 9780300117776, Yale University Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 tables&charts

The rapid emergence of China and India as prime locations for low-cost manufacturing has led some analysts to conclude that manufacturers in the "old economies" – the U. S. , U. K. , Germany, and Japan – are being edged out of a profitable future. Bu...

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Philosophy

Abandoned to Ourselves Being an Essay on the Emergence and Implications of Sociology in the Writings of Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau...

Meyers Peter Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300172058, Yale University Press, September 2013
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

In this extraordinary work, Peter Alexander Meyers shows how the centrepiece of the Enlightenment – society as the symbol of collective human life and as the fundamental domain of human practice – was primarily composed and animated by its most ambiv...

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History of Art

From Still Life to the Screen Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London

Monteyne Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300196351, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 55 colour images, 101 black&white illus.

"From Still Life to the Screen" explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In his lively and insightful text, Joseph Monteyne considers such themes as the display of objects...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Woodrow Wilson Princeton to the Presidency

Maynard W. Barksdale

ISBN: PB: 9780300204889, Yale University Press, July 2013
406 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

Before Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States, he spent 25 years at Princeton University, first as an undergraduate, then professor, and finally as president. His experiences at the helm of Princeton-where he enjoyed four productive yea...

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