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New Haven
A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design: 15 Illustrated Tours
In the nineteenth century New Haven was known as one of America’s most beautiful cities. This reputation rested partly on its once-famous elms and partly on a certain quality of urban grace that long characterized the city....
The Yale Edition of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More
Volume 13, Treatise on the Passion, Treatise on the Blessed Body, Instructions and Prayers
The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 20
Volume 20: January 1 through December 31, 1773
Franklin’s activities in 1773 were as multifarious as ever, but behind them were two developments that closely affected his future. One was the growing impact on him and his London world of the shock waves emanating from...
Beginning Chinese
A complete revision of the first volume in the Yale Linguistic Series, this new version, in pinyin romanization, and aimed at secondary school and college levels, is an introduction to spoken Chinese. It includes...
The Lives of Roger Casement
Knighted in 1911 for distinguished service as a British foreign officer, hanged five years later for high treason to the Crown, Roger Casement is one of the most enigmatic figures in the long history of troubles...
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature
Plays and Poems
Third Edition
Readings in Modern Chinese Literature is designed as a textbook for the student who, after several semesters of study, has acquired sufficient knowledge of Chinese and is now ready to approach reading original plays, poems...
The Jewish Expression
In this classic collection, once again available in a paperbound edition, leading modern scholars examine and interpret 3,000 years of Jewish literature and history. The essays study the actions and institutions of the...
Fifty-Five T’ang Poems
A Text in the Reading and Understanding of T’ang Poetry
Four masters of the shi form of Chinese poetry, who are generally considered to be giants in the entire history of Chinese literature, are represented in this book: three from the eighth century, and one from the ninth. A few...
Spoken Standard Chinese, Volume One
This book begins the Spoken Standard Chinese series, which emphasizes natural dialogue and familiarity with a modern, adult vocabulary. Book One uses pinyin romanization and no Chinese characters. An accompanying audio...
The History of King Richard III and Selections from the English and Latin Poems
This volume is the third to appear in the modernized series of Selected Works of St. Thomas More, a series designed to make available to the general reader works which have already appeared or are about to appear in...