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Gather Out of Star-Dust A Harlem Renaissance Album

Barton Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9780300225617, Yale University Press, April 2017
144 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Gather Out of Star-Dust" takes as its central premise that the Harlem Renaissance, known by its participants as the Negro Renaissance, relied heavily on "gatherings" of all kinds. Collaboration, friendship, partnership, and sponsorship were all cent...

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Performing Arts

Guilty Pleasures: Theater, Piety, and Immorality in Seventeenth-Century France Yale French Studies, Number 130

Harris Joseph, Prest Julia

ISBN: PB: 9780300221633, Yale University Press, March 2017
160 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality in seventeenth-century France. Although the Catholic Church condemned the power of plays to stir up com...

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History of Art

Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Baert Barbara, Bayer Andrea, Dunlop Anne, Ostrow Steven F., Pon Lisa, Postle Martin, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...

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German

German Phonetics and Phonology Theory and Practice

O'Brien Grantham Mary, Fagan Sarah M. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300196504, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 58 black&white illus.

The first course book designed to engage students in the pronunciation of modern German by grounding practice in theory An essential introduction to the pronunciation of modern German, this unique classroom text is designed to help mid- to upper-leve...

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Christianity

George Whitefield America's Spiritual Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223583, Yale University Press, October 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

An engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd's fascinating n...

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Ecology

Green State in Africa

Death Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780300215830, Yale University Press, September 2016
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodivers...

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History of Art

Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Wilson-Bareau Juliet, Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9780300196269, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x25.5 cm, 354 colour illus.

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre,...

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Contemporary Art

George Shaw My Back to Nature

Shaw George, Wiggins Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781857096033, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2016
104 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 60 colour illus.

In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National Gallery, London. This book documents his experiences there, as well as the work he produced in response to the Gallery's collection. Sha...

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Gender Studies

Law

Gender Nonconformity and the Law

Yuracko Kimberly A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...

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Architecture

Genesis of Roman Architecture

Hopkins John North

ISBN: HB: 9780300211818, Yale University Press, February 2016
268 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 62 colour illus., 58 black&white illus.

This groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th century BCE. Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors of classical art and architecture or rely on...

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