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Life of Christina of Hane

Kirakosian Racha

ISBN: HB: 9780300250992, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

The thirteenth-century mystic Christina of Hane led an extraordinary life, but her recently unearthed case remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world. Her disturbing account of vaginal mutilation, her competition with the Virgin Mary, and...

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Mathematics

Mathematics Lover's Companion Masterpieces for Everyone

Scheinerman Edward R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300255393, ISBN: HB: 9780300223002, Yale University Press, January 2021
296 pp., 23.5x16.5 cm, 106 black&white illus.

Twenty-three mathematical masterpieces for exploration and enlightenment. How can a shape have more than one dimension but fewer than two? What is the best way to elect public officials when more than two candidates are vying for the office? Is it p...

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History of Art

Renaissance Treasures from the Edmond Foulc Collection

Hinton Jack, Gauthier Alexandra

ISBN: PB: 9780876332948, Yale University Press, January 2021
64 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 45 colour illus.

In 1930, the Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired the collection of medieval and Renaissance sculpture and decorative arts assembled by Edmond Foulc (1828-1916). Foulc's beautiful Paris residence was an important gathering place for like-minded art en...

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Philosophy

Christianity

Migrants in the Profane Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization

Gordon Peter E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300250763, Yale University Press, January 2021
208 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Migrants in the Profane" takes its title from an intriguing remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he summarized the meaning of Walter Benjamin's image of a celebrated mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden religious animus: "Nothing of theolog...

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