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No Longer Outsiders Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill
ISBN: HB: 9780226765273, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 9 tables
With the rise of Black Lives Matter and immigrant rights protests, critics have questioned whether mainstream black and Latino civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and UnidosUS are in touch with the needs of minorities – especially from young...
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£76,00
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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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Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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Newcomers Gentrification and Its Discontents
ISBN: HB: 9780226476261, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Gentrification is transforming cities, small and large, across the country. Though it's easy to bemoan the diminished social diversity and transformation of commercial strips that often signify a gentrifying neighborhood, determining who actually ben...
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£23,00
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No Vacancy Homeless Women in Paradise
ISBN: PB: 9781940939711, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, March 2019
186 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Homelessness touches every corner of our country, even the most prosperous ones. In "No Vacancy: Homeless Women in Paradise", Michael E. Reid tells the story of more than five hundred women living without shelter in the affluent sea-side communities...
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£15,00
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Nightmarch Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas
ISBN: HB: 9781849049900, Hurst Publishers, August 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up o...
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£20,00
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Normality A Critical Genealogy
ISBN: PB: 9780226484051, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
The concept of normal is so familiar that it can be hard to imagine contemporary life without it. Yet the term entered everyday speech only in the mid-twentieth century. Before that, it was solely a scientific term used primarily in medicine to refer...
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£26,50
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New Intimacies, Old Desires Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times
ISBN: HB: 9789384757748, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
480 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on...
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£26,50
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New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...
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£25,00
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Nationalism and the Multination State
ISBN: PB: 9781849046572, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this h...
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£25,00
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