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Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...
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£30,00
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Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.
On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...
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£70,00
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: HB: 9780300218176, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work. Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...
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Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
ISBN: HB: 9780300182897, Yale University Press, August 2017
456 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure – and one of the first female leaders – of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement. Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and o...
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Wanted The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly
ISBN: PB: 9780300227123, ISBN: HB: 9780300204551, Yale University Press, July 2017
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' reputations are so weighted with legend and myth, the truth of their live...
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Racial Glass Ceiling Subordination in American Law and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300223309, Yale University Press, July 2017
248 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A compelling study of a subtle and insidious form of racial inequality in American law and culture. Why does racial equality continue to elude African Americans even after the election of a black president? Liberals blame white racism while conserva...
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Anatomy of Malice The Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals
ISBN: PB: 9780300226935, Yale University Press, July 2017
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
<p>When the ashes had settled after World War II and the Allies convened an international war crimes trial in Nuremberg, a psychiatrist, Douglas Kelley, and a psychologist, Gustave Gilbert, tried to fathom the psychology of the Nazi leaders, using ex...
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Mindful Tech How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives
ISBN: PB: 9780300227017, ISBN: HB: 9780300208313, Yale University Press, May 2017
256 pp., 25.6x21 cm
From email to smart phones, and from social media to Google searches, digital technologies have transformed the way we learn, entertain ourselves, socialize, and work. Despite their usefulness, these technologies have often led to information overloa...
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New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...
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