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Women Studies

From Victims to Suspects Muslim Women Since 9/11

Hussein Shakira

ISBN: HB: 9780300230420, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of "terror" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan, Paki...

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Women Studies

Anthropology

Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England

Vickery Amanda

ISBN: PB: 9780300245721, Yale University Press, January 2019
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 80 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.

In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dor...

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Criminology

23/7 Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary

Reiter Keramet

ISBN: PB: 9780300240191, ISBN: HB: 9780300211467, Yale University Press, November 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

How America's prisons turned a "brutal and inhumane" practice into standard procedure Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in U.S. prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend twenty-three hours a day in feat...

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Ancient World

Women Studies

Domina The Women Who Made Imperial Rome

de la Bedoyere Guy

ISBN: HB: 9780300230307, Yale University Press, September 2018
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 3 maps

Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero – these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of these emperors was the blood son of his predecessor. In this captivating history, a prominent scholar of t...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Devotion

Smith Patti

ISBN: PB: 9780300240221, ISBN: HB: 9780300218626, Yale University Press, September 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...

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America

General

Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement

Flores Lori A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...

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Criminology

Metamorphosis How to Transform Punishment in America

Ferguson Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300230833, Yale University Press, June 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiat...

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General

Migrant Brothers A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity

Chamoiseau Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780300232943, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 1 black&white illus.

As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigr...

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World

General

Almost Home Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone

Chopra Ruma

ISBN: HB: 9780300220469, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves revea...

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General

Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded

Dikec Mustafa

ISBN: HB: 9780300214949, Yale University Press, November 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 colour illus.

In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikec shows how these revo...

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