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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...
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£39,00
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Until Choice Do Us Part Marriage Reform in the Progressive Era
ISBN: PB: 9780226085838, ISBN: HB: 9780226085661, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
For centuries, people have been thinking and writing – and fiercely debating – about the meaning of marriage. Just a hundred years ago, Progressive era reformers embraced marriage not as a time-honored repository for conservative values, but as a too...
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£24,00
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£69,00
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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£7,00
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Great Rent Wars New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: HB: 9780300191721, Yale University Press, November 2013
504 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 23 black&white illus.
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were trigg...
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£60,00
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Civil Disobedience An American Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124590, Yale University Press, November 2013
384 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
The distinctive American tradition of civil disobedience stretches back to pre-Revolutionary War days and has served the purposes of determined protesters ever since. This stimulating book examines the causes that have inspired civil disobedience, th...
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£27,00
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Reading History Sideways The Fallacy and Enduring Impact of the Developmental Paradigm on Family Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226104461, ISBN: HB: 9780226798608, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps
European and American scholars from the eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries thought that all societies passed through the same developmental stages, from primitive to advanced. Implicit in this developmental paradigm – one that has affecte...
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£24,00
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£42,00
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Job-Search Games Chemistry, Self-Blame, and Unemployment Experiences
ISBN: PB: 9780226073538, ISBN: HB: 9780226073361, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 3 tables
Today 4. 7 million Americans have been unemployed for more than six months. In France more than ten percent of the working population is without work. In Israel it's above seven percent. And in Greece and Spain, that number approaches thirty percent....
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£24,00
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£68,50
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Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables
Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future
ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...
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£10,99
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£20,00
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Childism Confronting Prejudice Against Children
ISBN: PB: 9780300192407, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In this groundbreaking volume on the human rights of children, acclaimed analyst, political theorist, and biographer Elisabeth Young-Bruehl argues that prejudice exists against children as a group and that it is comparable to racism, sexism, and homo...
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£14,99
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