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Law

Taking Back the Constitution Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law

Tushnet Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300245981, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a c...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Klein Matthew C., Pettis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...

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Culture Studies

Literary Criticism

Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...

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America

Year of Peril America in 1942

Campbell Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...

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History

Culture Studies

Virus in the Age of Madness

Levy Bernard-Henri

ISBN: PB: 9780300257373, Yale University Press, July 2020
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...

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Military

War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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Law

Constitutional Revolution

Jacobsohn Gary Jeffrey, Roznai Yaniv

ISBN: HB: 9780300231021, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Few terms in political theory are as overused, and yet as under-theorized, as constitutional revolution. In this book, Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai argue that the most widely accepted accounts of constitutional transformation, such as those found...

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Technology & Engineering

Philosophy

Engineering Ethics Contemporary and Enduring Debates

Johnson Deborah G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209242, Yale University Press, July 2020
216 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

The first engineering ethics textbook to use debates as the framework for presenting engineering ethics topics, this engaging, accessible survey explores the most difficult and controversial issues that engineers face in daily practice. Written by a...

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History of Art

Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82

Levy Evonne, Weddigen Tristan

ISBN: HB: 9780300250473, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to the Swiss art historian Heinrich W...

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Business & Economics

Cost of Free Money How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future

Subacchi Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300244045, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

When it comes to the afflictions of the global economy, almost everyone – and especially Donald Trump – is quick to point the finger of blame at the state of international trade. But what about unconstrained capital flows? Unfettered capital has resu...

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