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Jack the Ripper The Forgotten Victims
ISBN: HB: 9780300117202, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The number of women murdered and mutilated by Jack the Ripper is impossible to know, although most researchers now agree on five individuals. These five canonical cases have been examined at length, but other contemporary murders and attacks bearing...
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£20,00
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Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...
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£46,00
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Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780300169409, Yale University Press, February 2014
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed...
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Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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£40,00
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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...
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£60,00
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Civil Disobedience An American Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...
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£27,00
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Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...
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£10,99
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End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...
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Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...
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£14,99
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Woman Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...
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