Catherine Baker: 10 books

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer areas, such as the history of imprisonment and...

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies literature on music, politics and the state, which...

Dans les premières civilisations et sur tous les continents habités, on a d’abord puni pour montrer aux dieux qu’on prenait leur parti contre ceux qui les offensaient : s’il entrait dans les interdits par exemple de tuer quelqu’un d’autre que ses enfants mais aussi bien de manger du mil...

Thisis the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race – not just ethnicity – and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects critical race scholarship, global historical...

Le texte de la conférence L’abolition de la prison signifie-t-elle l’abolition du droit, de la justice et de toute société ? que j’avais écrit en 1985 et qui a beaucoup circulé sous le titre de Conférence d’Amsterdam a servi de point de départ à ce livre ; qu’on ne s’étonne pas...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our May 2017 issue (#128)  contains: Original stories by Nick Wolven ("Streams and Mountains"),...

VOR DER BLAUEN BUCHT VON SAINT-TROPEZ von BAKER, HOLLY Ihr Vater hat ihr Anteile eines Weingutes vermacht? Fassungslos fliegt Zoe nach Saint-Tropez, um den Besitz zu inspizieren. Und verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in Henri Marchand, den zweiten Besitzer! Sind seine Küsse ehrlich, oder geht es ihm...

The 31st edition of the celebrated annual fiction collection showcasing the best stories by the best new writers in Canada, all contenders for the prestigious $10,000 Writers' Trust of Canada/McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. Like the O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and the Best...

Teachers are the single most important element in helping every child succeed in school. Action Research for Teacher Candidates has been written in the hopes of equipping teachers-in-training with the skills needed for action research: a process that leads to focused, effective, and responsive strategies...

Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective...