Roe
The History of a National Obsession
ISBN: PB: 9780300276862,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266108,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history.
What explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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£14.99
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£20.00
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Digital Liberty
Power, Wealth and the Influence Machine
ISBN: PB: 9781915054111,
Legend Times Group,
University of Buckingham Press,
July 2024
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
"Digital Liberty" explores the imminent convergence of three pivotal themes: data, artificial intelligence and society's intricate social graph, and wars of a looming crisis that threatens to challenge the very foundations of liberal democracies. Two...
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£19.99
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Muslim Women and Misogyny
Myths and Misunderstandings
ISBN: PB: 9781911723011,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
Debunking lazy stereotypes, a courageous exploration of Islamophobia, patriarchy and identity. What is it really like to be a Muslim woman in today's Britain?
Muslim women are among the most fetishised and objectified groups...
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£15.99
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Brilliant Exiles
American Women in Paris, 1900-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300273588,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
288 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris.
For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the t...
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£45.00
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300270785,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism.
In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded i...
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£50.00
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Thank You Mr Crombie
Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British
ISBN: HB: 9781911723004,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
For sale in CIS only!
Reflections on migration, race and British society since the 1960s, from a journalist who made history as the BBC's first non-white editor.
Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels e...
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£25.00
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Modern Man in the Making
ISBN: HB: 9783037786765,
Lars Muller Publishers,
April 2024
160 pp., 26,6x21,2 cm, 100 illus.
160 pp., 26,6x21,2 cm, 100 illus.
Otto Neurath's famous "Modern Man in the Making", first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on...
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£60.00
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Women and the Piano
A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: HB: 9780300266573,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 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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£25.00
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Backbone of the Nation
Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
ISBN: PB: 9780300277906,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...
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£11.99
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Category Is: Cocktails!
Mixed Drinks Inspired By Legendary Drag Performers
ISBN: HB: 9783791389806,
Prestel Publishing,
March 2024
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
Slip on your best heels, beat your face for the gods, and get ready to toast sixty iconic drag queens, kings, and nonbinary performers with cocktails and zero-proof drinks made in their honor.
Category Is: Cocktails! features original recipes for 60...
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£12.99
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