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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City
ISBN: PB: 9781551647678, ISBN: HB: 9781551647692, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpr...
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£17,95
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Unspeakable A Life beyond Sexual Morality
ISBN: HB: 9780226733531, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood...
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Self Evident Truths 10,000 Portraits of Queer America
ISBN: HB: 9783791386911, Prestel Publishing, September 2020
544 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 10000 black&white illus.
The Declaration of Independence states that it is self-evident that we are all created equal. Millions of people in the US, however, are deprived of basic rights merely because they aren't heteronormative. Believing that it's impossible to deny the h...
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£29,99
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Upsold Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226721378, ISBN: HB: 9780226721231, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 line drawing, 5 tables
What do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold...
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£23,00
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£72,00
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How to Catch a Killer Hunting and Capturing the World's Most Notorious Serial Killers
ISBN: PB: 9781454939375, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2020
320 pp., 21x14 cm, illus.
There are two parts to every crime story: how they did it and why they got caught.This book is about the second part and how it changes the way we catch serial killers. No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the...
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£14,99
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Serial Killers of the '70s Stories Behind a Notorious Decade of Death
ISBN: PB: 9781454939382, GMC Group, Sterling, July 2020
320 pp., 20.6x13.5 cm, illus.
The Zodiac Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler and Dating Game Killer – in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most not...
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Brief Natural History of Civilization Why a Balance Between Cooperation & Competition Is Vital to Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780300245912, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Offering a bold new understanding of who we are, where we came from, and where we are going, noted ecologist Mark Bertness argues that human beings and their civilization are the products of the same self-organization, evolutionary adaptation, and na...
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Intimate Disconnections Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226700953, ISBN: HB: 9780226699653, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 2 tables
In many ways, divorce is a quintessentially personal decision – the choice to leave a marriage that causes harm or feels unfulfilling to the two people involved. But anyone who has gone through a divorce knows the additional public dimensions of brea...
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£66,00
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Experiments with Power Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad
ISBN: PB: 9780226705484, ISBN: HB: 9780226700649, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 106 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed "crime hot spots". The government justified this action and subsequent poli...
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£72,00
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Queer Budapest, 1873-1961
ISBN: PB: 9780226705798, ISBN: HB: 9780226705651, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones
By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the "Pearl of the Danube", it boasted some of Europe's most innovative architectural and cultural achievements, and its growing middle class...
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£78,00
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