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At Home in the Law How the Domestic Violence Revolution is Transforming Privacy
ISBN: PB: 9780300172621, Yale University Press, October 2010
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
In the past forty years, the idea of home, which is central to how the law conceives of crime, punishment, and privacy, has changed radically. Legal scholar Jeannie Suk shows how the legitimate goal of legal feminists to protect women from domestic a...
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£17,00
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Marriage and Cohabitation
ISBN: PB: 9780226798677, ISBN: HB: 9780226798660, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
412 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 tables, 16 line illus.
Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's 500-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women...
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£28,00
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£52,00
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Shift Israel-Palestine from Border Struggle to Ethnic Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849040853, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
144 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The size and intensity of the Israeli army's operations since 2000 as well as the unprecedented scale of settlement construction brought about a qualitative change in the relationship between Palestinians and Israelis, altering...
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£20,00
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Starring Mandela and Cosby Media and the End(s) of Apartheid
ISBN: PB: 9780226451893, ISBN: HB: 9780226451886, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa – among both Black and White South Africans – was "The Cosby Show". Why did people living under a system built on the idea that Black people were inferior and th...
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£24,00
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£56,50
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Anthropology at War World War I and the Science of Race in Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226222684, ISBN: HB: 9780226222677, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war. The discipline was relatively new in German academia when World War I broke out, and, as Andrew D. Evans reveals in this illuminating book, its develop...
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£26,50
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£79,00
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Apart Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West
ISBN: PB: 9781849040754, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Muslim minorities comprise an ever-increasing proportion of Europe's population, but are official strategies to thwart home-grown terrorism forcing Muslims further to the fringe of our societies? For every terror suspect we see...
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£17,99
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Under Siege Inter-ethnic Relations in Abkhazia
ISBN: HB: 9781849040204, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Under Siegeis" the first book in any language to document and analyze the ethno-political dynamics of Abkhazia – a region located in the north eastern corner of the Black Sea – which broke away from the post-Soviet Republic of...
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£30,00
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Alaska Native Cultures and Issues Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
ISBN: PB: 9781602230910, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
102 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 16 halftones
Making up more than ten percent of Alaska's population, Native Alaskans are the state's largest minority group. Yet most non-Native Alaskans know surprisingly little about the histories and cultures of their indigenous neighbors, or about the importa...
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£11,50
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Deaf and Disability Studies Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563684647, Gallaudet University Press, July 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table
This collection presents 14 essays by renowned scholars on Deaf people, Deafhood, Deaf histories, and Deaf identity, but from different points of view on the Deaf/Disability compass. Editors Susan Burch and Alison Kafer have divided these works aro...
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£41,50
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Belonging in an Adopted World Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
ISBN: PB: 9780226964478, ISBN: HB: 9780226964461, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 line drawings, 9 tables, 16 halftones
Since the early 1990s, transnational adoptions have increased at an astonishing rate, not only in the United States, but worldwide. In "Belonging in an Adopted World", Barbara Yngvesson offers a penetrating exploration of the consequences and implica...
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£21,00
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£60,00
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