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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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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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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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Shared Future Faith-Based Organizing for Racial Equity and Ethical Democracy
ISBN: PB: 9780226306025, ISBN: HB: 9780226305974, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 25 line drawings
Faith-based community organizers have spent decades working for greater equality in American society, and more recently have become significant players in shaping health care, finance, and immigration reform at the highest levels of government. In "A...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Music/City American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
ISBN: PB: 9780226305523, ISBN: HB: 9780226305493, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings
Austin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot...
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£24,00
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£67,50
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Corporate Social Responsibility? Human Rights in the New Global Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780226244303, ISBN: HB: 9780226244273, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
With this book, Charlotte Walker-Said and John D. Kelly have assembled an essential toolkit to better understand how the notoriously ambiguous concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) functions in practice within different disciplines and set...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Who Speaks for the Negro?
ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...
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£20,00
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Performing Afro-Cuba Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226119052, ISBN: HB: 9780226118864, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 56 halftones
Visitors to Cuba will notice that Afro-Cuban figures and references are everywhere: in popular music and folklore shows, paintings and dolls of Santeria saints in airport shops, and even restaurants with plantation themes. In "Performing Afro-Cuba",...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Global Spread of Fertility Decline Population, Fear, and Uncertainty
ISBN: HB: 9780300139068, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The world's population has grown by five billion people over the past century, an astounding 300 percent increase. Yet it is actually the decline in family size and population growth that is the issue attracting greatest concern in many countries. Th...
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£50,00
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Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State Israel's Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9781611683639, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, December 2012
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Israel currently has two recognized systems of law operating side by side: civil and religious. Israeli religious courts possess the exclusive right to conduct and terminate marriages. There is no civil marriage or divorce in Israel, irrespective of...
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£68,00
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