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Is the Rectum a Grave? and Other Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780226043548, ISBN: HB: 9780226043524, University of Chicago Press, December 2009
224 pp., 23x15 cm
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory – his famous meditation on...
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£25,00
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£76,00
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Deaf History and Culture in Spain A Reader of Primary Documents
ISBN: HB: 9781563684197, Gallaudet University Press, December 2009
260 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 10 photos
In this landmark reader, Benjamin Fraser offers in five parts 44 Spanish documents dating from 1417 to the present, translated for the first time to trace the turbulent history of Deaf culture in Spain. Part I: The Birth of Oralism and Deafness as Me...
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£60,00
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm
In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...
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£22,00
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Gender and American Jews Patterns in Work, Education, and Family in Contemporary Life
ISBN: PB: 9781584657569, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2009
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "Gender and American Jews", Harriet Hartman and Moshe Hartman interpret the results of the two most recent National Jewish Population Surveys. Building on their critical work in "Gender Equality and American Jews" (1996), and drawing on relevant s...
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£24,00
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I Fill This Small Space The Writings of a Deaf Activist
ISBN: PB: 9781563684081, Gallaudet University Press, August 2009
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Lawrence Newman became deaf at the age of five in 1930, and saw his father fight back tears knowing that his son would never hear again. The next time he saw his father cry was in 1978, when Newman received an honorary doctorate from Gallaudet Univer...
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£37,50
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Network Power The Social Dynamics of Globalization
ISBN: PB: 9780300151343, Yale University Press, June 2009
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; for others, it is the unfortunate outcome of imperson...
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£33,00
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Deaf People Around the World Educational and Social Perspectives
ISBN: HB: 9781563684104, Gallaudet University Press, May 2009
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 24 tables, 4 figures, 3 photos
In "Deaf People Around the World: Educational and Social Perspectives", the leading researchers in 30 nations describe the shared developmental, social, and educational issues facing deaf people filtered through the prism of unique national, regional...
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£64,00
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Talking to Terrorists Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country
ISBN: PB: 9781850659679, Hurst Publishers, May 2009
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The peace agreement in Northern Ireland is now held up as a beacon for conflict resolution around the world. The 'lessons of Ulster' have been applied by prime ministers, presidents, diplomats and intelligence agencies to numer...
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£17,99
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