Nighttime Butterfly A Catholic Woman and Her Jewish Family in Warsaw at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300270839, Yale University Press, September 2025
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...
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25.00 GBP
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Susan Watkins and Women Artists of the Progressive Era
ISBN: HB: 9780300276442, Yale University Press, August 2025
176 pp., 29,2x22,2 cm, 103 colour illus.
This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artis...
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Room of Her Own Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1880-1945
ISBN: HB: 9780300282115, Yale University Press, June 2025
200 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating examination of the interconnectivity of women artists and activists in Great Britain from the Victorian era through the Second World War. Women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945 learned to deftly negotiate private and...
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35.00 GBP
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Perfect Communities Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia
ISBN: HB: 9780300259544, Yale University Press, June 2025
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 41 black&white illus.
The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, com...
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Personhood The New Civil War over Reproduction
ISBN: HB: 9780300273045, Yale University Press, June 2025
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The next phase of the war over reproduction in America. What's next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has be...
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Mission Europe The Secret History of the Women of SOE
ISBN: HB: 9780300272697, Yale University Press, May 2025
368 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus., 1 map
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe. In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations...
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20.00 GBP
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Women and the Piano A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: PB: 9780300281101, ISBN: HB: 9780300266573, Yale University Press, May 2025
304 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano – but how many women pianists can you name? Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Ev...
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Crush Twentieth-Anniversary Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300278576, Yale University Press, May 2025
96 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the influential first poetry collection by Richard Siken. Since winning the 2004 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition, "Crush" has become a modern classic. This twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new i...
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28.00 GBP
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Queer Lens A History of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9781606069691, Getty Publications, May 2025
342 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 293 colour illus., 1 gatefold
Copiously illustrated, Queer Lens explores the transformative role of photography in LGBTQ+ communities from the nineteenth century to the present day. Photography's power to capture a subject – representing reality, or a close approximation – has i...
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55.00 GBP
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Plunder of Black America How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made
ISBN: HB: 9780300258950, Yale University Press, April 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 6 black&white illus.
The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations. Wealth is central to the American pursuit of happiness and is an overriding measure of we...
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