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Tacit Racism
ISBN: PB: 9780226703695, ISBN: HB: 9780226703558, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
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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Crusade for Justice The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226691428, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
496 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones
"She fought a lonely and almost single-handed fight, with the single-mindedness of a crusader, long before men or women of any race entered the arena; and the measure of success she achieved goes far beyond the credit she has been given in the histor...
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£16,00
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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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Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...
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£50,00
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Scripts of Terror The Stories Terrorists Tell Themselves
ISBN: HB: 9781787380172, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book explores terrorism as a strategic choice – one made carefully and deliberately by rational actors. Through an analysis of the terrorist groups of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, it charts a series of different strategi...
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£35,00
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Wildcat Women Narratives of the Women Breaking Ground in Alaska's Oil and Gas Industry
ISBN: PB: 9781602233546, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2018
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 2 maps
Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn't deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats".Wildcat Women" is the first book to document the life and labor of pioneering women in the oil fields of Alaska's Nor...
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£17,00
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Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...
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£14,99
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Ill Composed Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306, ISBN: HB: 9780300200706, Yale University Press, October 2016
296 pp., 23x14.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...
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£28,00
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£65,00
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Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism
ISBN: PB: 9780226380841, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster...
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£13,00
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Body Toning for Women Bodyweight Training / Nutrition / Motivation: 21 Days is All it Takes
ISBN: PB: 9781782550716, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, January 2016
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 3 colour illus., 246 black&white illus., 3 tables
Every woman wants to work on some part of her body. Whether you are looking to shape your arms, bust, back, abs, bottom, or legs, Lucy Wyndham-Read's book on body toning will help you get the perfect gym body. Within just 21 days, you will see notice...
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£13,95
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