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Music

Classical Music Lover's Companion to Orchestral Music

Philip Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300254822, ISBN: HB: 9780300120691, Yale University Press, September 2020
968 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm

Robert Philip, scholar, broadcaster, and musician, has compiled an essential handbook for lovers of classical music, designed to enhance their listening experience to the full. Covering four hundred works by sixty-eight composers from Corelli to Shos...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Collector The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces

Semenova Natalya, Delocque-Fourcaud Andre-Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780300254815, ISBN: HB: 9780300234770, Yale University Press, September 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and to a...

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Asia

Cambodia From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond

Strangio Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780300211733, Yale University Press, August 2020
344 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 33 black&white illus.

To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio,...

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Design

Interior Design

Charles Rennie Mackintosh The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs

Billcliffe Roger

ISBN: HB: 9780906506233, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 33.7x23.5 cm, 900 illus.

Roger Billcliffe's groundbreaking catalogue raisonne of the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh first appeared over four decades ago. This fourth edition has been completely revised and updated to take account of the host of discoveries and develo...

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Middle East

Military

Crusader Strategy Defending the Holy Land

Tibble Steve

ISBN: HB: 9780300253115, Yale University Press, August 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Medieval states, and particularly crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop "strategy" in any meaningful sense. However, the crusaders were actually highly organized in t...

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Other

Cursed Britain A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times

Waters Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300254778, Yale University Press, August 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 20 colour illus., 3 maps

<p>"Cursed Britain" unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic in modern times. Few topics are so secretive or controversial. Yet, whether in the 1800s or the early 2000s, when disasters struck or personal misfortunes...

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Law

Constitutional Revolution

Jacobsohn Gary Jeffrey, Roznai Yaniv

ISBN: HB: 9780300231021, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Few terms in political theory are as overused, and yet as under-theorized, as constitutional revolution. In this book, Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai argue that the most widely accepted accounts of constitutional transformation, such as those found...

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Business & Economics

Cost of Free Money How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future

Subacchi Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300244045, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone – and especially Donald Trump – is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital flows? Unfettered capital has resu...

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Astronomy

Celestial Mirror The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II

Perlus Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300246278, Yale University Press, June 2020
168 pp., 26.6x22.8 cm, 163 colour illus.

Between 1724 and 1730, Maharajah Sawaii Jai Singh II of Jaipur constructed five astronomical observatories, called Jantar Mantars, in northern India. The four remaining observatories are an extraordinary fusion of architecture and science, combining...

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Jewish Studies

Christianity

Christians Who Became Jews Acts of the Apostles and Ethnicity in the Roman City

Stroup Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300247893, Yale University Press, June 2020
240 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Str...

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