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Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781602234284, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2021
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 tables
Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, n...
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£24,00
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Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...
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£15,95
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£53,95
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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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£27,00
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Class Matters The Strange Career of an American Delusion
ISBN: PB: 9780300244359, ISBN: HB: 9780300221503, Yale University Press, May 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm
From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's "American carnage", class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past with his own family's history, deftly illustrating...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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City
ISBN: PB: 9780226636504, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
256 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
First published in 1925, "The City" is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Pa...
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£19,00
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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent
ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...
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£22,50
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Constellations of Inequality Space, Race, and Utopia in Brazil
ISBN: PB: 9780226499260, ISBN: HB: 9780226499123, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 map
In 1982, the Brazilian Air Force arrived on the Alcantara peninsula to build a state-of-the-art satellite launch facility. They displaced some 1,500 Afro-Brazilians from coastal land to inadequate inland villages, leaving many more threatened with di...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Cities as Multiple Landscapes Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans
ISBN: PB: 9783593506470, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
529 pp., 20.9x14 cm, 60 halftones, 15 colour plates, 20 line drawings, 4 maps
Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged in political, social, and cultural discourses. Together, these combine to create what the contributors to this volume call multiple lan...
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£55,00
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Colouring the Nation Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic
ISBN: PB: 9781902669113, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In few countries are concepts of race and colour as important or controversial as in the Dominican Republic. Sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, the country has coexisted uneasily with its predominantly Afric...
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£19,99
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Charges (The Supplicants)
ISBN: PB: 9780857423306, Seagull Books, August 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have die...
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£14,50
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