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Vice Patrol Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall
ISBN: PB: 9780226769783, ISBN: HB: 9780226769646, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and cl...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Vagrant Figures Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction
ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones
More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...
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£36,00
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Vory Russia's Super Mafia
ISBN: PB: 9780300243208, ISBN: HB: 9780300186826, Yale University Press, April 2019
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone, a group that has survived and thrived amid the change...
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Voices and Values The Politics of Feminist Evaluation
ISBN: HB: 9789385932397, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities...
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£19,00
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Voices of Jordan
ISBN: PB: 9781787380134, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once th...
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£18,99
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Very Queer Family Indeed Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780226527284, ISBN: HB: 9780226393780, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
"We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind". So begins "A Very Queer Family Indeed", which introduces us to the extraordinary Benson family. Edward White Bens...
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Varieties of Social Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226433967, ISBN: HB: 9780226433820, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In July 2009, the "American Journal of Sociology" (AJS) began publishing book reviews by an individual writing as Barbara Celarent, professor of particularity at the University of Atlantis. Mysterious in origin, Celarent's essays taken together provi...
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£67,50
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Visions of Sodom Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c. 1550-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780226438665, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 5 line drawings
The book of Genesis records the fiery fate of Sodom and Gomorrah – a storm of fire and brimstone was sent from heaven and, for the wickedness of the people, God destroyed the cities "and all the plains, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that...
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£41,50
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Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman
ISBN: HB: 9780226250618, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones
With all the heated debates around religion and homosexuality today, it might be hard to see the two as anything but antagonistic. But in this book, Dominic Janes reveals the opposite: Catholic forms of Christianity, he explains, played a key role in...
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