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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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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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£10,99
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£20,00
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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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Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty
ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...
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£50,00
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Aristocratic Vice The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Gambling, and Adultery in Eighteenth-century England
ISBN: HB: 9780300184334, Yale University Press, July 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.
"Attack on Aristocratic Vice" examines the outrage against – and attempts to end – the four vices associated with the aristocracy in 18th century in England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. All four, it was commonly believed, owed their or...
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£50,00
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Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight
ISBN: PB: 9780300192483, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day – one e...
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£19,99
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Black Ranching Frontiers African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900
ISBN: HB: 9780300179927, Yale University Press, November 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 52 black&white illus.
In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides a new way of looking at and studying the h...
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£53,00
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Losing It In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain...
ISBN: PB: 9780300188233, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 20.8x13.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.
In the opening pages of this irresistible book, William Ian Miller warns, "the general themes... may strike some as glum and grim". Yet humour leavens each page as he confronts old age, its humiliations, and its undeniable hardships. Taking an enti...
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£11,99
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Contagion How Commerce Has Spread Disease
ISBN: HB: 9780300123579, Yale University Press, August 2012
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Disease and commerce are among the most powerful forces that have shaped the modern world. They are also closely intertwined: over many centuries trade has been the single most important factor in the spread of diseases throughout the world. In this...
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£25,00
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Making Way for Genius The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
ISBN: HB: 9780300174823, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities – Germaine de Stael, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier – Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionali...
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£44,00
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