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Literary Criticism

Hernando Colon's New World of Books Toward a Cartography of Knowledge

Perez Fernandez Jose Maria, Wilson-Lee Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300230413, Yale University Press, March 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.

This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal––that...

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Performing Arts

Ibsen's Kingdom The Man and His Works

Sprinchorn Evert

ISBN: HB: 9780300228663, Yale University Press, March 2021
688 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 black&white illus.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen achieved unparalleled success in his lifetime and remains one of the most important figures in modern drama. The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, Evert Sprinchorn's biography constructs Ibsen's life through...

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Islam

Public Freedoms in the Islamic State

Ghannouchi Rached, Johnston David L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300211528, Yale University Press, March 2021
576 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In "Public Freedoms in the Islamic State", he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – in its broad outlines – meets with wide acceptance among Muslims...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 41

Spring Marika, Ackroyd Paul, Billinge Rachel, Cornelis Bart, Higgitt Catherine, Keith Larry, Melchiorre Marta, Peggie David

ISBN: PB: 9781857096705, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2021
104 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 200 illus.

The latest in this annual bulletin based on research carried out at the National Gallery, London, draws on the combined expertise of scientists, conservators, and curators, bringing together a wealth of information about artists' materials, practices...

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Interior Design

Nature

Nature Inside Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior

Sparke Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780300244021, Yale University Press, February 2021
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 illus.

From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, "Nature Inside" explores the history...

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Asia

Nine-Tenths of the Law Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia

Lund Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780300251074, Yale University Press, February 2021
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The old aphorism "possession is nine-tenths of the law" is particularly relevant in Indonesia, which has seen a string of regime changes and a shifting legal landscape for property claims. Ordinary people struggle to legalize their possessions and cl...

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Literary Criticism

North African Poetry in French Yale French Studies, Number 137/138

Connolly Thomas C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300250374, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of "Yale French Studies" sho...

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Contemporary Art

Ecology

Picture Ecology Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Kusserow Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780300254266, Yale University Press, February 2021
256 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 170 colour illus.

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. "Picture Ecolog...

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Criminology

Vagrant Figures Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police

Nicolazzo Sal

ISBN: HB: 9780300241310, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...

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History of Art

When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Woodward Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...

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