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Political Science

Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

Sunstein Cass R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212693, Yale University Press, June 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Based on a series of path breaking lectures given at Yale University in 2012, this powerful, thought-provoking work by national best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein combines legal theory with behavioural economics to make a fresh argument about the l...

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Ecology

Water 4.0 The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

Sedlak David L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212679, Yale University Press, May 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

Turn on the tap, and water pours out. Pull out the plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineer...

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Philosophy

On Historical Distance

Salber Phillips Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780300213874, ISBN: HB: 9780300140378, Yale University Press, April 2015
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Austerity The Great Failure

Schui Florian

ISBN: PB: 9780300212778, Yale University Press, April 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

<p>Austerity is at the centre of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to p...

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Christianity

Radiant Truths An Anthology of Essential Dispatches, Reports, Confessions, and other Essays on American Belief

Sharlet Jeff

ISBN: PB: 9780300212686, ISBN: HB: 9780300169218, Yale University Press, April 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier's bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the s...

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Europe

Jewish Studies

Liberation of the Camps The End of the Holocaust and its Aftermath

Stone Dan

ISBN: HB: 9780300204575, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet...

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Europe

Competing Visions of Empire Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire

Swingen Abigail L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300187540, Yale University Press, April 2015
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Abigail L. Swingen's insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England's original imperial designs influenced contemporary English politics and debates about labor, economy, and...

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Photography

Palestinians Photographs of a Land and its People from 1839 to the Present Day

Sanbar Elias

ISBN: HB: 9780300212181, Yale University Press, March 2015
384 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 150 colour illus., 500 duotone illus.

A crossroads of religions, politics, and cultures with deep symbolic and historical significance, the holy land of Palestine has a resonance far greater than its size. Notably, the centuries-old conflict there has catapulted this tiny area to the cen...

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Political Science

Ukrainian Nationalism Politics, Ideology, and Literature, 1929-1956

Shkandrij Myroslav

ISBN: HB: 9780300206289, Yale University Press, March 2015
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Both celebrated and condemned, Ukrainian nationalism is one of the most controversial and vibrant topics in contemporary discussions of Eastern Europe. Perhaps today there is no more divisive and heatedly argued topic in Eastern European studies than...

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Criminology

Killing Compartments The Mentality of Mass Murder

Swaan Abram de Swaan

ISBN: HB: 9780300208726, Yale University Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxono...

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