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Political Science

Paradox of Liberation Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions

Walzer Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300223637, Yale University Press, January 2017
192 pp., 21x14 cm

A thought-provoking reflection on why secular national liberation movements are so often challenged by militant religious revivals Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on de...

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Film Studies

Dreamlands Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016

Iles Chrissie, Archey Karen, Canemaker John, Gunning Tom, Hoberman J., Leslie Esther, Bruno Giuliana, Droitcour Brian, Elcott Noam, Lewis David

ISBN: HB: 9780300221879, Yale University Press, January 2017
256 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 100 black&white illus.

A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and arti...

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Jewish Studies

Islam

Across Legal Lines Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco

Marglin Jessica M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218466, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

A previously untold story of Jewish-Muslim relations in modern Morocco, showing how law facilitated Jews' integration into the broader Moroccan society in which they lived Morocco went through immense upheaval in the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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Music

Real Life Rock The Complete Top Ten Columns, 1986-2014

Marcus Greil

ISBN: PB: 9780300223606, Yale University Press, January 2017
600 pp., 22.1x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

<p>From the author of "The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs" comes his "Basement Tapes": the complete "Real Life Rock Top 10" columns For nearly thirty years, Greil Marcus has written a remarkable column cal...

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Europe

General

Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Biography & Memoires

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John, Hinks Peter P., Kaufman Heather L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300204711, Yale University Press, January 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in pre-...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 37

Roy Ashok

ISBN: PB: 9781857096101, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2017
104 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 155 colour illus.

This volume continues the National Gallery's acclaimed series of Technical Bulletins with a selection of studies across the range of the collection, jointly authored by experts in the field of conservation and the scientific examination of paintings....

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Europe

Art of the Bribe Corruption Under Stalin, 1943-1953

Heinzen James

ISBN: HB: 9780300175257, Yale University Press, January 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

The first archive-based study of official corruption under Stalin and a compelling new look at the textures of everyday Soviet life after World War II In the Soviet Union, bribery was a skill with its own practices and culture. James Heinzen's innova...

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Business & Economics

Forging Capitalism Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance

Klaus Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300223590, ISBN: HB: 9780300181944, Yale University Press, January 2017
296 pp., 22.9x14.4 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus's "Forging Capitalism"...

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Architecture

Why X Matters

Why Preservation Matters

Page Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300218589, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement – and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes una...

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