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History of Art

Court and Cosmos The Great Age of the Seljuqs

Peacock A. C. S., Canby Sheila R., Beyazit Deniz, Rugiadi Martina

ISBN: HB: 9781588395894, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2016
400 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 450 colour illus.

Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific Seljuqs – a dynastic tribe whose reach extended from Central Asia to the eastern Mediterranean – dominated the Islamic world from the 11th to the 14th century. This...

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Architecture

Court, Country, City Essays on British Art and Architecture, 1660-1735

Hallett Mark, Llewellyn Nigel, Myrone Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300214802, Yale University Press, May 2016
544 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 208 colour illus.

The late 17th and early 18th centuries saw profound changes in Britain and in its visual arts. This volume provides fresh perspectives on the art of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods, focusing on the concepts, spaces, and audiences of court,...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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Evolution

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices

Jarvis Devra I., Hodgkin Toby, Brown Anthony H. D., Tuxill John, Noriega Isabel Lopez, Smale Melinda, Sthapit Bhuwon, Samper Cristian

ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...

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Christianity

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Introduction to the New Testament

Brown Raymond E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173123, ISBN: HB: 9780300140163, Yale University Press, May 2016
928 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, maps

From the experience of a lifetime of scholarship, preaching, teaching, and writing, Raymond E. Brown covers the entire scope of the "New Testament" with ease and clarity. He walks readers book by book through the basic content and issues of the "New...

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Music

Hatred of Music

Quignard Pascal, Amos Matthew, Ronnback Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300211382, Yale University Press, May 2016
216 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the re...

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Christianity

Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion

Shoemaker Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300217216, Yale University Press, May 2016
320 pp., 23.6x15.7 cm

For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strange...

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Contemporary Art

Film Studies

Astro Noise A Survival Guide to Living Under Total Surveillance

Poitras Laura, Sanders Jay, Boumediene Lakhdar, Crawford Kate, Doctorow Cory, Eggers Dave, Magid Jill, Paglen Trevor, Snowden Edward, Steyerl Hito

ISBN: PB: 9780300217650, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

The filmmaker, artist, and journalist Laura Poitras has explored the themes of mass surveillance, "war on terror", drone program, Guantanamo, and torture in her work for more than ten years. In 2013, Poitras was contacted by Edward Snowden, a former...

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Literary Criticism

Curiosity

Manguel Alberto

ISBN: PB: 9780300219807, Yale University Press, May 2016
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 51 black&white illus.

Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?" has appeared under a multiplicity of guises and in vastly different...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Franz Kafka The Poet of Shame and Guilt

Friedlander Saul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219722, ISBN: HB: 9780300136616, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence – in his many letters, extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating...

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