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Biography & Memoires

Speer Hitler's Architect

Kitchen Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780300226416, Yale University Press, March 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen di...

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Anthropology

Christianity

Spiritual Economy Gift Exchange in the Letters of Paul of Tarsus

Blanton Thomas R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300220407, Yale University Press, March 2017
240 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Thomas Blanton sheds light on the philosophy surrounding gift giving in Paul's letters and on modern theories of gift exchange through the lens of religion. The exchange of gifts is a fundamental part of society and a foundational element in Greco-Ro...

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Contemporary Art

Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honore Sharrer

Zagorin Adam Desmond, Burns Sarah, Cozzolino Robert, Kinigopoulo Anastasia, Lobel Michael, Wolfe M. Melissa

ISBN: HB: 9780300223132, Yale University Press, March 2017
176 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 125 colour illus.

Honore Sharrer (1920-2009) was a major art world figure in 1940s America, celebrated for exquisitely detailed paintings conveying subtly subversive critiques of the political and artistic climate of her time. This book offers the first critical reass...

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History of Art

Seurat's Circus Sideshow

Thomson Richard, Stein Susan Alyson, Hale Charlotte, Centeno Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9781588396150, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2017
144 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 120 colour illus.

The mystery, color, and magic of the circus was a subject of fascination for European artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The French Post-Impressionist painter Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891) explored this theme in a number of drawin...

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Literary Criticism

Story Time Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Young Timothy, Campbell Jill, Marcus Leonard, Maguire Gregory, Martin Michelle, Trumpener Katie, Whyte Padraic, Lyon Clark Beverly, Wasowicz Laura E., Frengel Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300218459, Yale University Press, February 2017
248 pp., 20.3x19 cm, 35 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

The history of children's literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the "Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collectio...

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America

Surge of Piety Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life

Lane Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300203738, Yale University Press, February 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The dramatic, untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria, when the threat of all-out nuclear war felt...

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Europe

Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Storrs Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300216899, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated by his second wife, Philip V of Spain (1700-1746), the first Bourbon king, was in fact the greatest t...

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Europe

Scorched Earth Stalin's Reign of Terror

Baberowski Jorg, Gilbert Steven, Komljen Ivo, Taber Samantha Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9780300136982, Yale University Press, January 2017
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

German scholar Jorg Baberowski is one of the world's leading experts on the Stalin era, but his work has seldom been translated into English. This book, an unremitting indictment of the mad violence with which Stalin ruled the Soviet Union, depicts S...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Search for Takrur Archaeological Excavations and Reconnaissance Along the Middle Senegal Valley

McIntosh Roderick J., McIntosh Susan Keech, Bocoum Hamady

ISBN: PB: 9780913516294, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 24.8x17.1 cm, 348 black&white illus

An authoritative summary of the results of the archaeological excavations in the middle Senegal River valley, site of the ancient African Empire of Takrur. A summary of archaeological discoveries in the middle Senegal River valley, this authoritativ...

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Ancient World

Spartan Regime Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy

Rahe Paul A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300219012, Yale University Press, September 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history. For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a civi...

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