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Anthropology

Stop Mugging Grandma The "Generation Wars" and Why Boomer Blaming Won't Solve Anything

Bristow Jennie

ISBN: HB: 9780300236835, Yale University Press, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Millennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their el...

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Europe

Stormtroopers A New History of Hitler's Brownshirts

Siemens Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780300246599, Yale University Press, July 2019
504 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

<p>Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidatio...

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Political Science

Social Democracy in the Making Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300236026, Yale University Press, June 2019
600 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism – a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citiz...

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Performing Arts

Sentence to Hope A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader

Wannous Sa'dallah, Myers Robert, Saab Nada

ISBN: HB: 9780300221343, Yale University Press, May 2019
464 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm

Sa'dallah Wannous is acknowledged to be one of the Arab world's most significant playwrights, writers, and intellectuals of the twentieth century. This first English-language collection brings together his major plays and essays. Selections include t...

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History of Art

Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Vilbar Sinead, Carr Kevin, Andrei Talia J., Chusid Miriam, Tomoji Iwai, Shigeki Iwata, Kazuki Morishima, Enishi Naomi, Kosei Taniguchi, Ken Shimizu, Ryusuke Yamaguchi

ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...

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Europe

Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000

Gibney John

ISBN: PB: 9780300244366, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continues through to virtually the present day, offering an integrated overview of the isla...

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Contemporary Art

Sophie Whettnall (at) Work

Abramovic Marina, Battista Emiliano, Fol Carine, Samuelson Scott, Whettnall Sophie

ISBN: PB: 9780300233278, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, May 2019
208 pp., 31.8x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

This unconventional publication explores the process of making art through the work and studio practice of Sophie Whettnall (b. 1973), a contemporary Belgian artist whose works range from video art, installation, and performance to sculpture and draw...

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Architecture

Pevsner Architectural Guides

Sussex: West Buildings of England

Williamson Elizabeth, Hudson Tim, Musson Jeremy, Nairn Ian, Pevsner Nikolaus

ISBN: HB: 9780300225211, Yale University Press, May 2019
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus., 80 black&white illus.

This volume covers some of the finest landscape and architecture in southern England, much of it set within the South Downs National Park. The county's small towns and villages feature a pleasing mix of stone, timber, and brick houses of every period...

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Ecology

Sustaining Lake Superior An Extraordinary Lake in a Changing World

Langston Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300244519, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 34 black&white illus.

Lake Superior, the largest lake in the world, has had a remarkable history, including resource extraction and industrial exploitation that caused nearly irreversible degradation. But in the past fifty years it has experienced a remarkable recovery an...

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Contemporary Art

Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery

Herrmann Daniel, Wiggins Colin, McBride Eimear, Capildeo Vahni, Grovier Kelly

ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.

Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...

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