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Europe

Artists Under Hitler Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Petropoulos Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300197471, Yale University Press, December 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.

What are we to make of those cultural figures, many with significant international reputations, who tried to find accommodation with the Nazi regime? Jonathan Petropoulos asks in this exploration of some of the most acute moral questions of the Third...

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Literary Criticism

Emerson's Proteges Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

Dowling David

ISBN: HB: 9780300197440, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assumin...

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Middle East

Jewish Studies

Babel in Zion Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948

Halperin Liora R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197488, Yale University Press, December 2014
328 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

The promotion and vernacularization of Hebrew, traditionally a language of Jewish liturgy and study, was a central accomplishment of the Zionist movement in Palestine in the years following World War I. Viewing twentieth-century history through the l...

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Christianity

Charity The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition

Anderson Gary A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198836, Yale University Press, December 2014
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

It has long been acknowledged that Jews and Christians distinguished themselves through charity to the poor. Though ancient Greeks and Romans were also generous, they funded theatres and baths rather than poorhouses and orphanages. How might we expla...

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General

Media Studies

It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens

Boyd Danah

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...

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Europe

Stalin's World Dictating the Soviet Order

Davies Sarah, Harris James

ISBN: HB: 9780300182811, Yale University Press, December 2014
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world – both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offi...

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Europe

Business & Economics

Works in Progress Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963

Smith Jenny Leigh

ISBN: HB: 9780300200690, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality of the Soviet Union's mid-twentieth-century project to industrialize and modernize its agricultural system. Historians agree that the project failed badly: agriculture wa...

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Ecology

Banned A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology

Davis Frederick Rowe

ISBN: HB: 9780300205176, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Rachel Carson's seminal book Silent Spring, published in 1962, stands as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Powerful and eloquent, the book exposed the dangers of indiscriminate chemical pesticide use. It also inspired importan...

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Media Studies

Culture Studies

Status Update Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

Marwick Alice

ISBN: PB: 9780300209389, ISBN: HB: 9780300176728, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention....

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Philosophy

Stay A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Hecht Jennifer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300209365, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Many thousands of people kill themselves every year, and many more are left behind to grieve. Distressing statistics show that suicide rates are rising, and studies confirm that suicide causes more suicide, both among those who knew the person and ev...

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