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Nation of Bookworms Czechs as Readers
ISBN: PB: 9788024646619, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2021
180 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Nation of Bookworms takes an in-depth look at the reading culture of the Czech Republic – the country with the highest number of libraries per capita worldwide. Drawing on studies and oral...
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£16,00
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Futbol in the Park Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties
ISBN: PB: 9780226748887, ISBN: HB: 9780226748740, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
You know the scene: amateur soccer players battling over the ball, spectators cheering from the sidelines, vendors selling their wares from carts. Over the past half century, immigration from Latin America has transformed the public landscape in the...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9781551647739, ISBN: HB: 9781551647753, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, November 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
What does the future hold? Is the desertification of the planet, driven by state and corporate authority, the final horizon of history? Is the dystopian future implied by the systemic degradation of nature and society inescapable? From marginal activ...
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£15,95
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£53,95
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Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Route Through Europe
ISBN: HB: 9780300241228, Yale University Press, March 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus.
War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, S...
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£18,99
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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour
ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...
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£25,00
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Land is Full Addressing Overpopulation in Israel
ISBN: HB: 9780300216882, Yale University Press, September 2016
408 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
An assessment of how Israel's extraordinary population growth undermines the country's environment, social equity, and quality of life – and what must be done about it During the past sixty-eight years, Israel's population has increased from one to e...
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£30,00
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17 Big Bets for a Better World
ISBN: PB: 9788793229549, Casemate, Gad Publishers, September 2016
198 pp., 24x17 cm, black&white illus.
The adoption of the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals was a landmark for the global community and our global sustainability. Now, one year after the initiation of the goals', it is time to really start thinking about implementing and realizing th...
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£15,00
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Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class
ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...
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£12,99
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Music and Capitalism A History of the Present
ISBN: PB: 9780226311975, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren't musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical – they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasiv...
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£24,00
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