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Education

Knowledge in the Making Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities

DelFattore Joan

ISBN: PB: 9780300188141, ISBN: HB: 9780300111811, Yale University Press, September 2012
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles ove...

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Women Studies

Biography & Memoires

Elizabeth and Hazel Two Women of Little Rock

Margolick David

ISBN: PB: 9780300187922, Yale University Press, September 2012
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.

<p>The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white...

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Performing Arts

New Light Shine

Murdoch Shannon, Guare John

ISBN: PB: 9780300184853, Yale University Press, September 2012
88 pp., 22.9x14 cm

When he was twelve, Joe snuck into the field on the edge of town and saw the Town Mayor with his sister Peregrine. This one moment has overwhelmed and transformed his life, becoming the only thing that holds any importance to him. Years later, in jai...

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World

Military

Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War

Bell P. M. H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187700, ISBN: HB: 9780300148855, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 maps, 20 black&white illus.

The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs of global conflict. They are the tense, thrilling moments that had the potential to swing...

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Biography & Memoires

Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew Modern Pots, Colonialism, and Counterculture

Harrod Tanya

ISBN: HB: 9780300100167, Yale University Press, September 2012
380 pp., 23.5x15.9 cm, 30 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

The British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, a husband and father who was also homosexual, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. Gradua...

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America

Media Studies

Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America

Goldberg Robert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...

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Fashion

Ivy Style Radical Conformists

Mears Patricia, Breward Christopher, Boyer G. Bruce, Chensvold Christian, Monden Masafumi, McNeil Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300170559, Yale University Press, September 2012
224 pp., 28x23 cm, 120 colour illus.

Many of the most familiar sartorial images of the 20th century can be traced to the prestigious college campuses of America. The "Ivy League Look", or "Ivy Style", was once a cutting-edge look that for decades led the evolution of menswear. Far more...

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Europe

World

December 1941 Twelve Days That Began a World War

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187878, Yale University Press, September 2012
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps, 16 pages of black&white illus.

In far-flung locations around the globe, an unparalleled sequence of international events took place between December 1 and December 12, 1941. In this riveting book, historian Evan Mawdsley explores how the story unfolded. He demonstrates how these d...

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Christianity

Holy Bones, Holy Dust How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

Freeman Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300184303, Yale University Press, September 2012
306 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Relics affected everyone in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint who might intercede with...

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Europe

Citizen Portrait Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales

Cooper Tarnya

ISBN: HB: 9780300162790, Yale University Press, September 2012
240 pp., 27x22 cm, 40 colour images, 80 black&white illus.

For much of early modern history, the opportunity to be immortalized in a portrait was explicitly tied to social class: only landed elites and royalty had the money and power to commission such an endeavour. But in the second half of the 16th century...

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