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Women Studies

Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life

Gornick Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm

"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...

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Current Affairs

General

End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

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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Photography

Erwin Blumenfeld

Eskildsen Ute

ISBN: PB: 9780300199383, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 27.5x21.5 cm, 90 colour images, 90 black&white illus.

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. His work offers a unique perspective on the society and politics of the 1930s through the 60s. Born in Berlin, Blumenfeld's peripatetic career took him fi...

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Fashion

Exhibiting Fashion Before and After 1971

Clark Judith, de la Haye Amy

ISBN: HB: 9780300125795, Yale University Press, October 2013
192 pp., 29.7x24 cm, 100 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

With the dramatic increase in popularity of fashion exhibitions over the past decade, this groundbreaking book provides a timely look at the evolution of the practice, taking as its anchor the seminal 1971 Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition "Fashi...

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Christianity

Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Hempton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...

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Computer Science & Internet

Law

Electronic Silk Road How the Web Binds the World Together in Commerce

Chander Anupam

ISBN: HB: 9780300154597, Yale University Press, August 2013
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

On the ancient Silk Road, treasure-laden caravans made their arduous way through deserts and mountain passes, establishing trade between Asia and the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean. Today's electronic Silk Roads ferry information acros...

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Christianity

Philosophy

Essays on Religion

Simmel Georg, Helle Horst Jurgen

ISBN: PB: 9780300205077, Yale University Press, August 2013
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

The noted German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel wrote a number of essays that deal directly with religion as a fundamental process in human life. These essays set forth Simmel's mature reflections on religion and its relation to modernity,...

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History of Art

Exhibiting Englishness John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic

Dias Rosie

ISBN: HB: 9780300196689, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 50 colour images, 95 black&white illus.

In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. With it...

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Middle East

Political Science

Egypt on the Brink From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood

Osman Tarek

ISBN: PB: 9780300198690, Yale University Press, July 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 20 illus.

In February 2011, following an extraordinary eighteen days of continual protest by the Egyptian people, President Mubarak agreed to resign, bringing thirty years of a repressive and stagnant regime to an end. In June 2012, a new president was elected...

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Europe

Enlightenment's Frontier The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism

Albritton Jonsson Fredrik

ISBN: HB: 9780300162547, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 maps, 7 black&white illus.

"Enlightenment's Frontier" looks at the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment – which gave birth to modern-day environmentalism – and sheds new light on Scottish thinkers such as Carl Linneaus, David Hume and Adam Smith. In this groundbreaking ne...

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