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Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

Griffin Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...

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Political Science

Foreign Policy for the Left

Walzer Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300223873, Yale University Press, February 2018
256 pp., 21x14 cm

Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for workers against moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (We...

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Ancient World

Biography & Memoires

Philo of Alexandria An Intellectual Biography

Niehoff Maren R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175233, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Philo was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who left behind one of the richest bodies of work from antiquity, yet his personality and intellectual development have remained a riddle. Maren Niehoff presents the first biography of Philo, arguing that hi...

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History

Artisanal Enlightenment Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

Bertucci Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300227413, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists,...

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Design

Crafting Excellence The Furniture of Nathan Lumbard and His Circle

Jackson Christie

ISBN: HB: 9780300232950, Yale University Press, February 2018
288 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 321 colour illus.

When the inscription "Made by Nathan Lumbard Apl 20th 1800" was found in the late 1980s on a chest of drawers, the identity of an unknown craftsman suddenly surfaced. "Crafting Excellence" introduces the striking achievements of cabinetmaker Nathan L...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Transatlantic Encounters Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars

Greet Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780300228427, Yale University Press, February 2018
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 137 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and '30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin Am...

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Military

Media Studies

Reporting War How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture, and Death to Cover World War II

Moseley Ray

ISBN: PB: 9780300234152, ISBN: HB: 9780300224665, Yale University Press, February 2018
440 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II's daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book, Ray Moseley, himself a for...

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Contemporary Art

Mark Bradford

Aquin Stephane, Hankins Evelyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230772, Yale University Press, February 2018
96 pp., 27.9x17.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book documents "Pickett's Charge", an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extend nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hi...

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Islam

Philosophy

Critique of Religious Discourse

Abu Zayd Nasr Hamid, Kersten Carool, Wright Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm

First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...

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History of Art

Contemporary Art

Picasso and the Art of Drawing

Lloyd Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300234800, Yale University Press, February 2018
230 pp., 27x21 cm, 144 colour illus.

In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications about his drawings that have tended to focus on parti...

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