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Model Cases On Canonical Research Objects and Sites
ISBN: PB: 9780226780832, ISBN: HB: 9780226780665, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 tables
We all know scientists study a predictable set of organisms when performing research, whether they be mice, fruit flies, or less commonly known but widely used species of snail or worm. But when we think of the so-called humanistic social sciences, w...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Making the Second Ghetto Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
ISBN: PB: 9780226728513, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years. Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking wo...
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£16,00
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Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Migrant City A New History of London
ISBN: HB: 9780300210972, Yale University Press, February 2020
384 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has always been a history of immigration. Panikos Panayi explores the rich and vibrant story of London– from its found...
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£20,00
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Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons
ISBN: PB: 9780300236149, Yale University Press, August 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with...
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£23,00
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Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders
ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...
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£68,00
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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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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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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour
ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...
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£12,99
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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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