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Migrant Brothers A Poet's Declaration of Human Dignity
ISBN: PB: 9780300232943, Yale University Press, June 2018
144 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm, 1 black&white illus.
As migrants embark on perilous journeys across oceans and deserts in pursuit of sanctuary and improved living conditions, what is the responsibility of those safely ensconced in the nations they seek to enter? Moved by repeated tragedies among immigr...
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£8,99
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Almost Home Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
ISBN: HB: 9780300220469, Yale University Press, May 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.
After being exiled from their native Jamaica in 1795, the Trelawney Town Maroons endured in Nova Scotia and then in Sierra Leone. In this gripping narrative, Ruma Chopra demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves revea...
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£25,00
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Making Kin not Population Reconceiving Generations
ISBN: PB: 9780996635561, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, May 2018
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
As the planet's human numbers grow and environmental concerns proliferate, natural scientists, economists, and policy-makers are increasingly turning to new and old questions about families and kinship as matters of concern. From government programs...
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£10,00
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Managing Their Own Affairs The Australian Deaf Community in the 1920s and 1930s
ISBN: HB: 9781944838102, Gallaudet University Press, February 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 illus., 30 photos
This work describes an eventful and formative time in Australian Deaf history the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s. During this period, Deaf people challenged the authority of the dominant welfare organizations (Deaf Societies), which were large...
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£60,00
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Syria The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State
ISBN: HB: 9781849048767, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
288 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! The dispossession and forced migration of nearly 50 per cent of Syria's population has produced the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. This new book places the current displacement within the context of the widespread...
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£20,00
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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals
ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.
In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...
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£52,50
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Fault Lines of History The India Papers II
ISBN: HB: 9789385932083, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
326 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Fault Lines of History" is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil right...
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£37,50
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Varieties of Social Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Affective Circuits African Migrations to Europe and the Pursuit of Social Regeneration
ISBN: PB: 9780226405155, ISBN: HB: 9780226405018, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
The influx of African migrants into Europe in recent years has raised important issues about changing labor economies, new technologies of border control, and the effects of armed conflict. But attention to such broad questions often obscures a funda...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang
ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table
For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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