art, academic and non-fiction books
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation

Name your list

Log in / Sign in

ta strona jest nieczynna, ale zapraszamy serdecznie na stronę www.obibook.com /// this website is closed but we cordially invite you to visit www.obibook.com

Sort and filter the results:
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...
HB:
£65,00
QTY:
Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928
ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...
PB:
£18,99
QTY:
HB:
£38,00
QTY:
Who Speaks for the Negro?
ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...
PB:
£20,00
QTY:
It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens
ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...
PB:
£10,99
QTY:
Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America
ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...
PB:
£18,99
QTY:
App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...
PB:
£12,99
QTY:
Arcadian America The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300205886, Yale University Press, April 2014
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 70 black&white illus.
<p>Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidl...
PB:
£40,00
QTY:
American Lynching
ISBN: PB: 9780300205879, Yale University Press, March 2014
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
After observing the varying reactions to the 1998 death of James Byrd, Jr. in Texas, called a lynching by some, denied by others, Ashraf Rushdy determined in order to understand this event he needed to understand the long history of lynching in the U...
PB:
£23,00
QTY:
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...
PB:
£18,00
QTY:
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...
HB:
£60,00
QTY: