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publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
publishers’ Eastern and Central European representation
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Designing in Class Activities to Promote Equity and Inclusion
ISBN: PB: 9781947602199,
ISBN: HB: 9781947602236,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
July 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
According to recent research by scholar Lauren Musu-Gillette, college enrollment of traditional-aged students has increased notably in the past twenty years, with significant increases in the number of African-American and Hispanic males and Hispanic...
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£28,00
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£52,00
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Out of Line and Offline
Queer Mobilizations in '90s Eastern India
ISBN: PB: 9780857427434,
Seagull Books,
June 2020
158 pp., 19x15.2 cm
158 pp., 19x15.2 cm
The 1990s and early 2000s were heady days for Indian queer people and their networks as they emerged from the shadows. They grouped together to deal with covert and overt forms of stigma, discrimination, and violence in different spheres of life. Tra...
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£25,00
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Intimate Disconnections
Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226700953,
ISBN: HB: 9780226699653,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Experiments with Power
Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484,
ISBN: HB: 9780226700649,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Queer Budapest, 1873-1961
ISBN: PB: 9780226705798,
ISBN: HB: 9780226705651,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube", it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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People's Porn
A History of Handmade Pornography in America
ISBN: HB: 9781789142266,
Reaktion Books,
June 2020
256 pp., 20.8x15.6 cm, 99 illus., 70 in colour
256 pp., 20.8x15.6 cm, 99 illus., 70 in colour
"The People's Porn" is the first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, which offers the back story to the explosion of amateur pornography on the Internet. In doing so, it is a much-needed counterweight to the ahistorical and ideolog...
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£30,00
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Brief Natural History of Civilization
Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
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£20,00
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Tacit Racism
ISBN: PB: 9780226703695,
ISBN: HB: 9780226703558,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time we interact with another human being, we unconscious...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Problem with Feeding Cities
The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226703077,
ISBN: HB: 9780226702919,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables
For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Naked Truth
Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984,
University of Chicago Press,
May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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