Media Picks: Best of 2013 and Holiday Gift-Guides

Yale University Press is pleased to present its annual roundup of “Best-of” and holiday gift-guide listings of books from a number of media outlets. In the past year, the following books received some amazing accolades. See what the critics are saying for top media picks from 2013:

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  • Fast Company has included the app in its round-up of “14 gift ideas for type lovers.”
The Leonard Bernstein Letters, edited by Nigel Simeone
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  • This book was named to The Wall Street Journal’s 12 Months of Reading piece in which contributers name their favorite reads of the year.
  • The New York Times has included the book in its holiday gift guide for classical music lovers. “Thoughtfully edited and organized by Nigel Simeone, it paints an epistolary portrait of a man whose appetite for beauty – both human and musical – was matched by a roving mind and a generous heart.
  • WQXR included the book in their 2013 Holiday Gift Guide at wqxr.org: “This anthology of Bernstein’s correspondence, assembled by Nigel Simeone, shines a light on the famous conductor and composer’s private thoughts.”
  • Iowa Public Radio included this book in its annual gift guide segment.
  • The Vancouver Sun includes the book in its holiday gift guide.
  • The San Francisco Chronicle has included the book in its holiday gift guide.
  • The Newark Star-Ledger has included the book in its holiday gift guide.
  • Adam Kirsch at The New Republic includes the book on his 5 Favorite Books of the Year.
Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, by Jess Bravin
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  • The Washington Post  named the book to its Notable Nonfiction of 2013 list
  • The Kansas City Star names it one of its top books of the year.
  • Nieman Reports has named The Terror Courts to its list of Best Investigative Journalism Books of 2013.
Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-66, by Timothy Anglin Burgard, Steven A. Nash, and Emma Acker
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  • Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes selected this catalogue as a best book for 2013.


Aesthetics: A Memoir, by Ivan Brunetti
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  • Print magazine gave this title a nice inclusion as a “wish list” item in a holiday gift round-up focused on design books.
Bernard Berenson: A Life in the Picture Trade, by Rachel Cohen
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  • This book was named to The Wall Street Journal’s 12 Months of Reading piece in which contributors name their favorite reads of the year.
The Making of Assisi: The Pope, the Franciscans, and the Painting of the Basilica, by Donal Cooper and Janet Robson
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  • Holland Cotter chose “this beautiful book” for inclusion in the New York Times Holiday Gift Guide.
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World, by Leo Damrosch
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  • The New York Times named it a Notable Book of 2013 – the only one, among the list of 100 titles, published by a university press.
The Cy Twombly Gallery: The Menil Collection, Houston, edited by Nicola Del Roscio and Julie Sylvester
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  • Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes selected this catalogue as a best book for 2013.
Dressing Dangerously: Dysfunctional Fashion in Film, by Jonathan Faiers
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  • The book is featured in the Chicago Tribune’s gift book guide on December 8th.
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis, by Michael Haas
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Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, by Jennifer Michael Hecht
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  • The Milwaukee Journal picks this as one of its ten favorite books of 2013.
Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, edited by Jay Hopler and Kimberly Johnson
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  • The book received a nice mention near the top of the Nov. 29 Shelf Awareness e-newsletter, as a holiday gift book.
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400–2000, edited by Pat Kirkham and Susan Weber
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Democracy in Retreat: The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government, by Joshua Kurlantzick
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  • This book was named to The Wall Street Journal’s 12 Months of Reading piece in which contributers name their favorite reads of the year.
Building Seagram, by Phyllis Lambert
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  • The book was named an editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best Books of 2013 – Architecture.
  • John King’s architecture book gift guide for the San Francisco Chronicle includes this book.
  • Docomomo US (the US branch of the International Committee for the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings) includes the book in their gift book guide. It’s one of three Yale titles included.
Lina Bo Bardi, by Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima
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Surge: My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War, by Peter R. Mansoor
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  • Politico included this book on its Gifts for Veterans list.
 The Houses of Louis Kahn, by George H. Marcus and William Whitaker
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 Bonsai: A Patient Art, by Susumu Nakamura and Ivan Watters
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  • This is included in The Chicago Tribune’s gift roundup, urging readers to shop at museum shops rather than malls.
 American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World, by Emily Ballew Neff
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  • Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes selected this catalogue as a best book for 2013.
 Jews and Words, by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger
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  • This book has been named to the Jewish Book Council’s 2013 Favorite Reads list.
 Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800, by Amelia Peck
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 Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson, by Barbara Ransby
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  • Publishers Weekly picks Eslanda as a Best Book of 2013.
  • This was selected as one of Teaching for Change’s Favorite Books of 2013.
Balthus: Cats and Girlsby Sabine Rewald
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Photography and the American Civil Warby Jeff L. Rosenheim
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  • Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes selected this catalogue as a best book for 2013.
Garry Winograndedited by Leo Rubinfien
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 The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Futureby Paul Sabin
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 Jewels by JARby Adrian Sassoon
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 The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffitiby Rafael Schacter
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  • The book was included in Kenneth Baker’s San Francisco Chronicle gift guide: “A truly international and entertaining city by city guide to the most spectacular and most sly works of contemporary art in public places, sometimes authorized, sometimes not.”
  • It was also featured in the New York Times Book Review’s holiday/gift book issue.
  • The book was #3 on the Huffington Post’s “30 Best Art Books of 2013”
  • This was chosen among Gwarlingo’s “26 Favorite Art, Photography, Film & Design Books of 2013.”
Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Doorby Elizabeth Siegel
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  • This was chosen among Gwarlingo’s “26 Favorite Art, Photography, Film & Design Books of 2013.”
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalkedited by Valerie Steele
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Ezra Stoller, Photographer, by Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller
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  • Docomomo US (the US branch of the International Committee for the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings) includes the book in their gift book guide.
 Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Beth Carver Wees
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  • The catalog is included in The Magazine Antiques’ annual book round-up.
 Wunderkammer, by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
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