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Contemporary Art

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When Home Won't Let You Stay Migration through Contemporary Art

Respini Eva, Erickson Ruth

ISBN: HB: 9780300247480, Yale University Press, November 2019
240 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm, 134 colour illus.

In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to mig...

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Middle East

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Sports, Politics and Society In the Middle East

Reiche Danyel, Sorek Tamir

ISBN: PB: 9781787381520, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
296 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sport in the Middle East has become a major issue in global affairs. The contributors to this timely volume discuss the intersection of political and cultural processes related to sport in the region. Eleven chapters trace the...

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No Vacancy Homeless Women in Paradise

Reid Michael E.

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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Shias of Pakistan An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority

Rieck Andreas T.

ISBN: PB: 9781787381513, ISBN: HB: 9781849043557, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
564 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Shias of Pakistan" are the world's second largest Shia community after that of Iran, but comprise only 10-15 per cent of Pakistan's population. In recent decades Sunni extremists have increasingly targeted them with hate p...

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Africa

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Living Politics in South Africa's Urban Shacklands

Ryan Chance Kerry

ISBN: PB: 9780226519661, ISBN: HB: 9780226519524, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

While much has been written on post-apartheid social movements in South Africa, most discussion centers on ideal forms of movements, disregarding the reality and agency of the activists themselves. In "Living Politics", Kerry Ryan Chance radically fl...

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"Labor Is Not a Commodity!" The Movement to Shorten the Workday in Late Nineteenth-Century Berlin and New York

Reick Philipp

ISBN: PB: 9783593506272, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, April 2017
237 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Analyzing the history of the movement to shorten the workday in late nineteenth-century New York City and Berlin, this book explores what Karl Polanyi has termed the "fictitious commodification" of labor. Despite the concept's significance for presen...

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Sincerity After Communism A Cultural History

Rutten Ellen

ISBN: HB: 9780300213980, Yale University Press, March 2017
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.

A compelling study of "new sincerity" as a powerful cultural practice, born in perestroika-era Russia, and how it interconnects with global social and media flows The global cultural practice of a "new sincerity" in literature, media, art, design, fa...

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Intersectional Inequality Race, Class, Test Scores, and Poverty

Ragin Charles C., Fiss Peer C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226414409, ISBN: HB: 9780226414379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 line drawings, 46 tables

For over twenty-five years, Charles C. Ragin has developed Qualitative Comparative Analysis and related set-analytic techniques as a means of bridging qualitative and quantitative methods of research. Now, with Peer C. Fiss, Ragin uses these impressi...

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America

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Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America

Reid Jason

ISBN: HB: 9780226409214, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

Teenage life is tough. You're at the mercy of parents, teachers, and siblings, all of whom insist on continuing to treat you like a kid and refuse to leave you alone. So what do you do when it all gets to be too much? You retreat to your room (and ma...

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Fixers Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990

Rabig Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226388311, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 1 table

Stories of Newark's postwar decline are easy to find. But in "The Fixers", Julia Rabig supplements these tales of misery with the story of the many imaginative challenges to the city's decline mounted by Newark's residents and suburban neighbors. In...

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