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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang
ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table
For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780226246543, ISBN: HB: 9780226246406, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact i...
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£20,00
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£60,00
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On the Run Fugitive Life in an American City
ISBN: HB: 9780226136714, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillanc...
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£20,00
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Opting Out Losing the Potential of America's Young Black Elite
ISBN: PB: 9780226040141, ISBN: HB: 9780226040134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 8 line illus.
Why has the large income gap between blacks and whites persisted for decades after the passage of civil rights legislation? More specifically, why do African Americans remain substantially underrepresented in the highest-paying professions, such as s...
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£27,00
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£65,50
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Other Side of Silence Sign Language and the Deaf Community in America
ISBN: PB: 9780930323646, Gallaudet University Press, March 1990
301 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Arden Neisser's classic on American Sign Language (ASL) is again available, with a new prologue. "The Other Side of Silence" chronicles the culture and issues of the Deaf community through telling interviews and research from across the country. In w...
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£17,50
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