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Creating Culture through Health Leadership
ISBN: HB: 9781947602601,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
January 2020
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
150 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The essays in "Creating Culture through Health Leadership" focus on community organizing, building and resourcing through community action, organizing, and education. The contributors share their experiences of building networks and working with loca...
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£30,00
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Culture as Judicial Evidence
Expert Testimony in Latin America
ISBN: PB: 9781947602632,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
January 2020
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Latin America, as early as 1975 testimony given under oath by anthropologists has been applied in the civil law systems in a number of Latin American countries. Called peritajes antropologicos culturales, this testimony can come in the form of wr...
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£30,00
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Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets
ISBN: PB: 9781947602663,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures
"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...
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£29,00
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Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
ISBN: HB: 9780226666006,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 figures, 7 tables
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 figures, 7 tables
Most economists would agree that a thriving economy is synonymous with GDP growth. The more we produce and consume, the higher our living standard and the more resources available to the public. This means that our current era, in which growth has sl...
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£20,00
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Abundant Earth
Toward an Ecological Civilization
ISBN: PB: 9780226596808,
ISBN: HB: 9780226596778,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
In "Abundant Earth", Eileen Crist not only documents the rising tide of biodiversity loss, but also lays out the drivers of this wholesale destruction and how we can push past them. Looking beyond the familiar litany of causes – a large and growing h...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Racial Stasis
The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226643625,
ISBN: HB: 9780226643595,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings
Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a mu...
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£26,00
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£74,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
Working Longer
ISBN: HB: 9780226619293,
University of Chicago Press,
NBER - National Bureau of Economic Research,
January 2020
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 320 figures, 19 tables
Developed countries during the last two decades have seen a long-term decline in men's labor force participation at older ages, followed by a more recent pattern of sharply rising participation rates. Participation rates for women at older ages have...
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£98,00
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Against the Avant-Garde
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780226655277,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 36 colour plates, 139 halftones
304 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 36 colour plates, 139 halftones
Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini self-confessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early mode...
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£34,00
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Civic Gifts
Voluntarism and the Making of the American Nation-State
ISBN: PB: 9780226670836,
ISBN: HB: 9780226559360,
University of Chicago Press,
December 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 7 tables
In "Civic Gifts", Elisabeth S. Clemens takes a singular approach to probing the puzzle that is the United States. How, she asks, did a powerful state develop within an anti-statist political culture? How did a sense of shared nationhood develop despi...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Community-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health, Volume 1
ISBN: HB: 9781947602687,
University of Chicago Press,
University of Cincinnati Press,
December 2019
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Communitiy-Academic Partnerships for Early Childhood Health" is the first in a seven-series volume that looks at participatory public health research studies conducted by scholar/community interdisciplinary teams. In this volume, academics work toge...
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