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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin
ISBN: HB: 9780300217193, Yale University Press, April 2016
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Musicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censor...
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£35,00
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Gender Nonconformity and the Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300125856, Yale University Press, March 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...
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£65,00
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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class
ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...
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£12,99
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Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300209525, Yale University Press, November 2015
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Just a few years before the dawn of the digital age, Harvard psychologist Bert Kaplan set out to build the largest database of sociological information ever assembled. It was the mid-1950s, and social scientists were entranced by the human insights p...
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£25,00
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Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...
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£40,00
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Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...
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£7,99
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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300208931, Yale University Press, July 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm
Possibly the most emotionally charged debate taking place in the United States today centers on the Second Amendment of the Constitution and the rights of citizens to bear arms. In the wake of the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, the gun ri...
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£25,00
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...
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£65,00
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Remoteness and Modernity Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan
ISBN: HB: 9780300205558, Yale University Press, June 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry into the idea of remote areas. Shafqat Hussain examines the surprisingly diverse ways the people of Hunza, a remote independent state in Pakistan, have been viewed by outsiders o...
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Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder
ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...
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