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Business & Economics

Hubris Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

Desai Meghnad

ISBN: PB: 9780300219494, ISBN: HB: 9780300213546, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 10 black&white illus.

The failure of economists to anticipate the global financial crisis and mitigate the impact of the ensuing recession has spurred a public outcry. Economists are under fire, but questions concerning exactly how to redeem the discipline remain unanswer...

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Biography & Memoires

Literary Criticism

Hans Christian Andersen European Witness

Binding Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219425, Yale University Press, April 2016
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Rarely does a European or American child grow up without an introduction to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling", "The Princess and the Pea", or "Thumbelina". Andersen began publishing his fairy tales in 1835, and they brought him almost imm...

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Literary Criticism

Hamlet Fold on Fold

Josipovici Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9780300218329, Yale University Press, March 2016
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. The paradox is that it is at once utterly familiar and strangely elusive-very like our own selves, argues Gabriel Josipovici in thi...

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History of Art

Hieronymus Bosch Visions of Genius

Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos

ISBN: PB: 9780300220131, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscap...

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History of Art

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Technical Studies

Hoogstede Luuk, Spronk Ron, Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos, Erdmann Robert G., Gotink Rik Klein

ISBN: HB: 9780300220155, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
496 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch's works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bo...

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Europe

Heroic Failure and the British

Barczewski Stephanie

ISBN: HB: 9780300180060, Yale University Press, February 2016
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 54 black&white illus.

From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, histori...

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Asia

History of Modern South Asia Politics, States, Diasporas

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300196948, Yale University Press, December 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history...

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Music

Culture Studies

History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...

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Military

Hundred Years War A People's History

Green David

ISBN: PB: 9780300216103, ISBN: HB: 9780300134513, Yale University Press, October 2015
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus., 5 maps

The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining feature of existence for generations. This sweeping book is the first to tell the human story of the longest military conflict in h...

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Fiction

Heroic Slave A Cultural and Critical Edition

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R. IV, Levine Robert S., Stauffer John

ISBN: PB: 9780300184624, Yale University Press, September 2015
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 black&white illus.

First published nearly a decade prior to the Civil War, "The Heroic Slave" is the only fictional work by abolitionist, orator, author, and social reformer Frederick Douglass, himself a former slave. It is inspired by the true story of Madison Washing...

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