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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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Seeing Silicon Valley Life inside a Fraying America
ISBN: PB: 9780226786483, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
112 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 67 colour plates
Acclaimed American photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world It's hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Val...
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£20,00
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Segregation by Experience Agency, Racism, and Learning in the Early Grades
ISBN: PB: 9780226765617, ISBN: HB: 9780226765587, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 tables
Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities. Some teachers engage with their students' ideas in ways that make learning co...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Sheer Misery Soldiers in Battle in WWII
ISBN: HB: 9780226753140, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 maps
Marching across occupied France in 1944, American GI Leroy Stewart had neither death nor glory on his mind: he was worried about his underwear. "I ran into a new problem when we walked", Stewart wrote, "the shorts and I didn't get along. They would c...
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£19,00
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Shades of Black
ISBN: HB: 9780857428530, Seagull Books, April 2021
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One might say that the womb of death – the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization – gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her point of departure, Nathalie Etoke examines Black existence today in her riveting new book, Shades...
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£11,99
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...
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£120,00
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Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America
ISBN: HB: 9783791386911, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
544 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10000 black&white illus.
The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the h...
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£29,99
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Serial Killers of the '70s Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death
ISBN: PB: 9781454939382, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2020
320 pp., 20.6x13.5 cm, illus.
The Zodiac Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler and Dating Game Killer – in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most not...
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£14,99
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Spartakiads The Politics and Aesthetics of Physical Culture in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024638515, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
350 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Every five years from 1955 to 1985, mass Czechoslovak gymnastic demonstrations and sporting parades called Spartakiads were held to mark the 1945 liberation of Czechoslovakia. Featuring hu...
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£19,00
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Soviet Signoras Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
ISBN: PB: 9780226662398, ISBN: HB: 9780226662251, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations...
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£68,00
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