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Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic
ISBN: PB: 9781602234284, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2021
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 11 tables
Community Based Monitoring Programs in the Arctic explores the concept and use of community-based monitoring (CBM) of ecological conditions in the Arctic. The authors analyze current programs and determines that CBM, while widespread and effective, n...
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£24,00
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Dynastic Imagination Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany
ISBN: PB: 9780226737874, ISBN: HB: 9780226737737, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Adrian Daub's The Dynastic Imagination offers an unexpected account of modern German intellectual history through frameworks of family and kinship. Modernity aimed to brush off dynastic, hierarchical authority and to make society anew through the mec...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Problem with Feeding Cities The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America
ISBN: PB: 9780226703077, ISBN: HB: 9780226702919, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 tables
For most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Urban Rage The Revolt of the Excluded
ISBN: HB: 9780300214949, Yale University Press, November 2017
264 pp., 21x14 cm, 16 colour illus.
In the past few decades, urban riots have erupted in democracies across the world. While high profile politicians often react by condemning protestors' actions and passing crackdown measures, urban studies professor Mustafa Dikec shows how these revo...
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£9,99
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New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies
ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...
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£25,00
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When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject Making
ISBN: PB: 9780226363974, ISBN: HB: 9780226363837, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Simone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she qui...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Nationalism and the Multination State
ISBN: PB: 9781849046572, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this h...
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£25,00
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Narcotic Culture A History of Drugs in China
ISBN: PB: 9781849044721, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium – a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence....
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£15,99
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Black Metropolis A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
ISBN: PB: 9780226253213, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
912 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table
Ground-breaking when first published in 1945, "Black Metropolis" remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America...
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£30,00
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Masters of Uncertainty Weather Forecasters and the Quest for Ground Truth
ISBN: PB: 9780226298689, ISBN: HB: 9780226298542, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 1 table
Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently do a better job calibrating their performance than stockbrokers, physicians, or other decision-making ex...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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