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Criminology

Errand into the Wilderness of Mirrors Religion and the History of the CIA

Graziano Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226767406, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David Martin's Wilderness of Mirrors (1980), a...

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Women Studies

Eliza Lucas Pinckney An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution

Glover Lorri

ISBN: HB: 9780300236118, Yale University Press, October 2020
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, sh...

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General

Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City

Garcia-Chueca Eva, Vidal Lorenzo

ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...

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Contemporary Art

Women Studies

Citizen Woman An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement

Gerhard Jane, Tucker Dan

ISBN: HB: 9783791385303, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
256 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 180 colour illus.

One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shif...

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Women Studies

Literary Criticism

Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

Gilbert Sandra M., Gubar Susan, Appignanesi Lisa

ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm

Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...

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Culture Studies

Women Studies

Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body

George Alys X.

ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones

Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...

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Criminology

Charles Manson Manson's Life Behind Bars

George Edward, Matera Dary

ISBN: PB: 9781454940869, GMC Group, Sterling, May 2020
384 pp., 21.3x14 cm, illus.

Charles Manson was perhaps the most infamous criminal of the 20th century. Convicted for orchestrating the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969, and for two other killings, there has been much written about him. But not many people knew him as well...

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Contemporary Art

Women Studies

Catlady A Love Letter to Women and Their Cats

Goren Leah

ISBN: HB: 9783791385990, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
224 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 80 colour images

There's no question that cats rule the world – ask any cat owner and they'll tell you how these balls of fur insert themselves into our lives and establish dominion over the household. In this book, Leah Goren brings together smart, funny essays by b...

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Women Studies

Europe

Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy

Griffin Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.

The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France

Guilluy Christophe, DeBevoise Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...

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