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Nation of Bookworms Czechs as Readers

Travnicek Jiri

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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Criminology

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Crime and Justice, Volume 49 Organizing Crime: Mafias, Markets, and Networks

Tonry Michael, Reuter Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226722832, ISBN: HB: 9780226708393, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

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Futbol in the Park Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties

Trouille David

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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Ecology

Common Futures Social Transformation and Political Ecology

Tarinski Yavor, Schismenos Alexandros

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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Islam

Criminology

Idols of ISIS From Assyria to the Internet

Tugendhaft Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226737560, ISBN: HB: 9780226623535, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
136 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq's Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political impor...

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Photography

Gender Studies

Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America

Tillett Wright Io

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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Current Affairs

Political Science

Road Before Me Weeps On the Refugee Route Through Europe

Thorpe Nick

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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Criminology

Law

Crime and Justice, Volume 48 American Sentencing

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226644912, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"American Sentencing" surveys what is known about the hottest topic in American criminal law reform. Massive efforts are underway to make sentencing more just and sentences more effective, and to reduce the use of imprisonment. The writers are the le...

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Crime and Justice, Volume 47 A Review of Research

Tonry Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226577043, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Since 1979, the "Crime and Justice" series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series e...

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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

Tinti Peter, Reitano Tuesday

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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