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Linguistics

Education

Perspectives on Teaching Language and Content

Katz Bourns Stacey, Krueger Cheryl, Mills Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780300223293, Yale University Press, August 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 9 black&white illus.

A contemporary guide to foreign language education, this book presents the latest developments and issues in the field of applied linguistics. It leads instructors to make vital connections between theory and practice and to develop innovative lesson...

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Law

Marriage Equality From Outlaws to In-Laws

Eskridge William N., Riano Christopher R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221817, Yale University Press, August 2020
1040 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same?sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, o...

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Posters

People Shall Govern! Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Poster, 1979-1985

Byrd Antawan I., Mings Felicia

ISBN: HB: 9780300254341, Yale University Press, July 2020
160 pp., 29.2x21.6 cm, 115 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Formed in the late 1970s, Medu Art Ensemble forcefully articulated a call to end the apartheid system's racial segregation and violent injustice through posters that combined revolutionary imagery with bold slogans. Advocating for decolonization and...

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Law

Taking Back the Constitution Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law

Tushnet Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780300245981, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 black&white illus.

The Supreme Court has never simply evaluated laws and arguments in light of permanent and immutable constitutional meanings, and social, moral, and yes, political ideas have always played into Supreme Court justices' impressions of how they think a c...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Klein Matthew C., Pettis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...

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Culture Studies

Literary Criticism

Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

Marcus Greil

ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...

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America

Year of Peril America in 1942

Campbell Tracy

ISBN: HB: 9780300233780, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 25 black&white illus.

The Second World War exists in the American historical imagination as a time of unity and optimism. In 1942, however, after a series of defeats in the Pacific and the struggle to establish a beachhead on the European front, America seemed to be on th...

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History

Culture Studies

Virus in the Age of Madness

Levy Bernard-Henri

ISBN: PB: 9780300257373, Yale University Press, July 2020
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...

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Military

War for the Seas A Maritime History of World War II

Mawdsley Evan

ISBN: PB: 9780300254884, ISBN: HB: 9780300190199, Yale University Press, July 2020
632 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 59 black&white illus., 9 maps, 14 figures

Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. By the start of 1942 Nazi Germany had conquered mainland Europe, and Imperial Japan had overrun Southeast Asia and much of the Pacific. How could Britain and distant America prevail in what h...

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Law

Constitutional Revolution

Jacobsohn Gary Jeffrey, Roznai Yaniv

ISBN: HB: 9780300231021, Yale University Press, July 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Few terms in political theory are as overused, and yet as under-theorized, as constitutional revolution. In this book, Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai argue that the most widely accepted accounts of constitutional transformation, such as those found...

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