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Christianity

Unity of Christ Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition

Beeley Christopher A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300178623, Yale University Press, July 2012
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Combining historical and theological analysis, Christopher Beeley offers a new contextualized reading of early church fathers – among them Origen of Alexandria, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, and Cyril of Alexandria – and reexamines their...

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Europe

Roads To Temple Truth, Memory, Ideas, and Ideals in the Making of the Russian Revolution, 1987-1991

Aron Leon

ISBN: HB: 9780300118445, Yale University Press, July 2012
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Sifting through a wide range of primary Russian sources, Leon Aron considers what sparked the profound shift in values that occurred in the Soviet Union before its fall. He pinpoints several principal questions brought to light in the glasnost-era pr...

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Law

From Goods to a Good Life

Sunder Madhavi

ISBN: HB: 9780300146714, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

There is general agreement that there are many holes in intellectual property law. Originally conceived as a means to stimulate creativity, it has become increasingly clear that, on one hand, the law can actually be used to stifle creativity. And, on...

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Architecture

From Ornament to Object Genealogies of Architectural Modernism

Payne Alina

ISBN: HB: 9780300175332, Yale University Press, July 2012
336 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 62 colour images, 108 black&white illus.

In the late 19th century, an enduring preference for highly ornamented architecture gave way to a budding Modernism of clean lines and unadorned surfaces. At the same moment, everyday objects – cups, saucers, chairs, and tables – began to receive cri...

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Political Science

Politics, Health and Healthcare Selected Essays

Marmor Theodore R., Klein Rudolf

ISBN: HB: 9780300110876, Yale University Press, July 2012
544 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Two towering figures in the field of health care policy analysis, Theodore R. Marmor and Rudolf Klein, reflect on a lifetime of thought in this wide-ranging collection of essays published in the wake of President Obama's health care reform. Presented...

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Europe

America

History in the Making

Elliott J. H.

ISBN: HB: 9780300186383, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and the writing of history, J. H. Elliott steps back from his work to consider the progress of historical scholarship. From his own experiences as a historian of Spain, Europe, and the...

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Asia

Europe

From the Abode of Islam to the Turkish Vatan The Making of National Homeland in Turkey

Ozkan Behlul

ISBN: PB: 9780300172010, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

How do people move from tribal and religiously based understandings of society to a concept of the modern nation-state? This book examines the complex and pivotal case of Turkey. Tracing the shifting valences of vatan (Arabic for "birthplace" or "hom...

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Architecture

James Wyatt, 1746-1813 Architect to George III

Robinson John Martin

ISBN: HB: 9780300176902, Yale University Press, July 2012
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 150 colour images, 170 black&white illus.

James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dod...

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History of Art

Metamorphosis Poems Inspired by Titian

Penny Nicholas, Agbabi Patience, Armitage Simon, Cope Wendy, Duffy Carol Ann, Greenlaw Lavinia, Harrison Tony, Heaney Seamus, Leviston Frances, Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781857095470, Yale University Press, July 2012
56 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 21 colour illus.

As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "Th...

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Current Affairs

Mexico Democracy Interrupted

Tuckman Jo

ISBN: HB: 9780300160314, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 black&white illus.

In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover – after 71 years of PRI dominance – was hailed as the beginning of a ne...

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