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Fiction

Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico Garcia Lorca Ascends to Hell

Rojas Carlos, Grossman Edith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205862, ISBN: HB: 9780300167764, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

In Carlos Rojas' imaginative novel, the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, murdered by Francoist rebels in August 1936, finds himself in an inferno that somehow resembles Breughel's Tower of Babel. He sits alone in a small theatre in this private he...

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Fiction

Severina

Rosa Rodrigo Rey, Andrews Chris

ISBN: PB: 9780300196092, Yale University Press, May 2014
112 pp., 21x14 cm

"Right from the start I picked her for a thief, although that day she didn't take anything...I knew she'd be back", the narrator/bookseller of "Severina" recalls in this novel's opening pages. Imagine a dark-haired book thief as alluring as she is da...

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History of Art

Carl Andre Sculpture as Place

Raymond Yasmil, Cherix Christophe, Holmes Brooke, Katz Vincent, Perloff Marjorie, Pierre Arnauld, Rorimer Anne, Tuchman Phyllis, Vergne Philippe

ISBN: HB: 9780300191714, Yale University Press, March 2014
400 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

Carl Andre (b. 1935) redefined the parameters of abstract sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a highly influential voice in the American minimalist movement, recognized for his ordered linear and grid formats. In the early 1960s, Andre's creativ...

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General

American Lynching

Rushdy Ashraf H. A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...

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Middle East

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

Rubin Barry, Schwanitz Wolfgang G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300140903, Yale University Press, February 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impac...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Antonio Berni Juanito and Ramona

Ramirez Mari Carmen, Pacheco Marcelo E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300196481, Yale University Press, December 2013
464 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 270 colour illus.

Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Lag...

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History of Art

Van Gogh Repetitions

Rathbone Eliza E., Robinson William H., Steele Elizabeth, Steele Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300190823, Yale University Press, November 2013
208 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist's method was more often controlled and deliberate. "Van Gogh Repetitions" is the first book to focus on t...

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Ecology

Future of Nature Documents of Global Change

Robin Libby, Sorlin Sverker, Warde Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300184617, Yale University Press, November 2013
592 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

This anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind environmental prediction and how, as predictions about environmental change have been taken more seriously and widely, they have affected politics, policy and public perception. T...

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Poetry

Second Simplicity New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011

Bonnefoy Yves, Rogers Hoyt

ISBN: PB: 9780300198188, Yale University Press, November 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

Yves Bonnefoy, now 87 years old, has enjoyed during the past two decades perhaps the most prolific and innovative period of his splendid lifework. This volume presents in English and French an inviting array of his recent writings, carefully selected...

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Middle East

Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

Raz Avi

ISBN: PB: 9780300198508, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its...

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