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Integrations The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education
ISBN: PB: 9780226786032, ISBN: HB: 9780226785981, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
The promise of a free, high quality public education is supposed to guarantee every child a shot at the American Dream. Yet, today many children of color do not have access to equal educational opportunities due primarily to white supremacy and class...
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£22,00
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£76,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...
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£120,00
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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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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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£20,00
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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...
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£12,00
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£40,00
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Minds Make Societies How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create
ISBN: PB: 9780300248548, ISBN: HB: 9780300223453, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
"There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature". Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book. Integrating recent in...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Unintentional Accomplice A Personal Perspective on White Responsibility
ISBN: PB: 9781940939230, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Carolyn L. Baker grew up in Southern California during segregation and came of age in the counter-cultural climate of the 1960s. Many years later, when Baker was in her mid-sixties, she first learned of the murder of Emmett Till, sparking an investig...
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£16,00
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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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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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Cities in the Urban Age A Dissent
ISBN: PB: 9780226535388, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 tables
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress wi...
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£22,50
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