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Sincerity After Communism A Cultural History

Rutten Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300213980, Yale University Press, March 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a "new sincerity" in literature, media, art, design, fa...

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Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Land is Full Addressing Overpopulation in Israel

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300216882, Yale University Press, September 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

An assessment of how Israel's extraordinary population growth undermines the country's environment, social equity, and quality of life – and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel's population has increased from one to e...

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Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality

Holton M. Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...

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Family Politics Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Ginsborg Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780300219470, ISBN: HB: 9780300112115, Yale University Press, April 2016
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., images, 36 black&white illus.

In this masterly twentieth-century history, Paul Ginsborg places the family at centre stage, a novel perspective from which to examine key moments of revolution and dictatorship. His groundbreaking book spans 1900 to 1950 and encompasses five nation...

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Classics for the Masses Shaping Soviet Musical Identity Under Lenin and Stalin

Fairclough Pauline

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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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class

Timberg Scott

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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Database of Dreams The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity

Lemov Rebecca

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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Souls of Black Folk

Du Bois W. E. B., Holloway Jonathan Scott

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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Do Guns Make Us Free? Democracy and the Armed Society

DeBrabander Firmin

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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