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Sorting Sexualities Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification
ISBN: PB: 9780226776767, ISBN: HB: 9780226769165, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Homelessness among Older Adults in Prague Causes, Contexts and Prospects
ISBN: PB: 9788024645254, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
444 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Following their engaging study Homelessness among Young People in Prague, the authors of this book turn their attention to an older population facing the same issue, a very different situa...
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£16,00
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Behind Closed Doors At Home in Georgian England
ISBN: PB: 9780300245721, Yale University Press, January 2019
400 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 80 black&white illus., 25 colour illus.
In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dor...
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£10,99
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Mirrored Loss A Yemeni Woman's Life Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049030, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Mirrored Loss" tells the story of Amat al-Latif al-Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relat...
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£35,00
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Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...
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£25,00
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Homelessness as an Alternative Existence of Young People
ISBN: PB: 9788024625171, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
320 pp., 24.1x17.2 cm, 27 line drawings, 2 maps, 79 charts
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The chronically homeless face a stark reality: lack of access to support systems, adequate shelter, and sustenance, with little hope for something better. For young people, however, life o...
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£15,00
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Hoodlums Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104638, ISBN: HB: 9780226847191, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroes – individuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black...
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£13,00
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£26,50
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Everyday Law on the Street City Governance in an Age of Diversity
ISBN: PB: 9780226921907, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
272 pp., 23x15 cm
Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city", and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, lim...
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£24,00
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Deadly Charm The Story of a Deaf Serial Killer
ISBN: PB: 9781563684432, Gallaudet University Press, May 2010
248 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
From the day he was born, Patrick McCullough faced hardships and reacted with untempered anger. His mother, a soon-to-be-divorced military wife, was late to realize that he was deaf and never learned how to handle his outbursts. Eventually, she aband...
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£11,50
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Gentleman's Daughter Women's Lives in Georgian England
ISBN: PB: 9780300102222, Yale University Press, November 2003
448 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 66 black&white illus.
What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to argue that in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ce...
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£11,99
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