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Economics of Poverty Traps
ISBN: HB: 9780226574301, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2018
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 66 line drawings, 33 tables
What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implications for the design and evaluation of policies and projects intended to reduce poverty. Ye...
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£98,00
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Problem of Jobs Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia
ISBN: PB: 9780226598420, ISBN: HB: 9780226560120, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 3 maps, 2 tables
Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, "The Problem of Jobs" reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rat...
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£29,00
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£42,00
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Shias of Pakistan An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority
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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£18,99
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£45,00
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Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders
ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Sweden's Dark Soul The Unravelling of a Utopia
ISBN: HB: 9781787380097, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a...
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£20,00
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Economics for Humans Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...
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£15,00
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Brokered Subjects Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780226573779, ISBN: HB: 9780226573632, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones
"Brokered Subjects" digs deep into the accepted narratives of sex trafficking to reveal the troubling assumptions that have shaped both right- and left-wing agendas around sexual violence. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork, Elizabeth Bernstein s...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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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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Thinking Through Statistics
ISBN: PB: 9780226567631, ISBN: HB: 9780226567464, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 56 line drawings, 25 tables
Simply put, "Thinking Through Statistics" is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables
Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...
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£24,50
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£74,00
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