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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City
ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...
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£17,95
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Twilight of the Elites The Prosperous, the Periphery, and the Future of France
ISBN: PB: 9780300248425, ISBN: HB: 9780300233766, Yale University Press, January 2020
192 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society" – one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy's winners and losers in today's France...
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£10,99
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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction
ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones
More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...
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£36,00
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Patchwork City Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila
ISBN: PB: 9780226643144, ISBN: HB: 9780226643007, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 3 line drawings
In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city". Garrido d...
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£24,00
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Citizen Brown Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs
ISBN: HB: 9780226647487, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited nationwide protests and brought widespread attention police brutality and institutional racism. But Ferguson was no aberration. As Colin Gordon shows in this urgent and timely book, the...
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Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
ISBN: PB: 9780226460550, ISBN: HB: 9780226460413, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphas...
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£79,00
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Legalizing Plural Marriage The Next Frontier in Family Law
ISBN: PB: 9781611688351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Polygamous marriages are currently recognized in nearly fifty countries worldwide. Although polygamy is technically illegal in the United States, it is practiced by members of some religious communities and a growing number of other "poly" groups. In...
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£32,00
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African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility
ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table
Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...
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£72,00
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Therapeutic Revolutions Pharmaceuticals and Social Change in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226390871, ISBN: HB: 9780226390734, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 8 line drawings, 5 tables
When asked to compare the practice of medicine today to that of a hundred years ago, most people will respond with a story of therapeutic revolution: Back then we had few effective remedies, but now we have more (and more powerful) tools to fight dis...
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£88,00
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Landscapes of Accumulation Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
ISBN: PB: 9780226385068, ISBN: HB: 9780226384900, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line drawings, 7 tables
Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious...
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