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Mobile Orientations An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders
ISBN: PB: 9780226585000, ISBN: HB: 9780226584959, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved – and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work – are too often obscured or swept away...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Sweden's Dark Soul The Unravelling of a Utopia
ISBN: HB: 9781787380097, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracised as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a...
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£20,00
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Economics for Humans Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226463803, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing
At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassi...
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£15,00
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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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Voices of Jordan
ISBN: PB: 9781787380134, Hurst Publishers, October 2018
184 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jordan's diverse socioeconomic make-up encapsulates, like no other Middle Eastern state, both the array of pressing short-term problems facing the region, and the underlying challenges that Arab states will need to face once th...
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£18,99
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Thinking Through Statistics
ISBN: PB: 9780226567631, ISBN: HB: 9780226567464, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones, 56 line drawings, 25 tables
Simply put, "Thinking Through Statistics" is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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Welcoming New Americans? Local Governments and Immigrant Incorporation
ISBN: PB: 9780226572659, ISBN: HB: 9780226572512, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables
Even as Donald Trump's election has galvanized anti-immigration politics, many local governments have welcomed immigrants, some even going so far as to declare their communities "sanctuary cities" that will limit cooperation with federal immigration...
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£24,50
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£74,00
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Silent Life and Silent Language The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf
ISBN: PB: 9781944838294, Gallaudet University Press, August 2018
200 pp., 21.6x14 cm
"Silent Life and Silent Language" presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and enter...
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£25,00
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Grounds for Dreaming Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement
ISBN: PB: 9780300240146, Yale University Press, July 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 31 black&white illus.
Known as "The Salad Bowl of the World", California's Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for the...
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£22,00
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High-Skilled Migration to the United States and Its Economic Consequences
ISBN: HB: 9780226525525, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 101 line drawings, 31 tables
Immigration policy is one of the most contentious public policy issues in the United States today. High-skilled immigrants represent an increasing share of the U. S. workforce, particularly in science and engineering fields. These immigrants affect e...
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£97,50
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