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Songs for Dead Parents Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China
ISBN: PB: 9780226481005, ISBN: HB: 9780226483382, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 8 tables
In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer them a sense of continuity and meaning? In "Songs for Dead Parents", Erik Mueggler shows how in contemporary China death and the practice...
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£19,00
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£60,00
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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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Mana of Mass Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226436258, ISBN: HB: 9780226436111, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
We often invoke the "magic" of mass media to describe seductive advertising or charismatic politicians. In "The Mana of Mass Society", William Mazzarella asks what happens to social theory if we take that idea seriously. How would it change our under...
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Shifting the Dialog, Shifting the Culture Pathways to Successful Postsecondary Outcomes for Deaf Individuals
ISBN: HB: 9781944838126, Gallaudet University Press, November 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 figures, 5 illus.
In this volume, Stephanie W. Cawthon and Carrie Lou Garberoglio discuss the individual and systemic factors that both facilitate and inhibit the attainment of postsecondary education, training, and career goals for deaf individuals. Real-life example...
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£52,50
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Sociologist's Eye Reflections on Social Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300106671, Yale University Press, October 2017
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The culmination of a distinguished career, this fascinating exploration into the nature of human social life describes the field of sociology as a way of looking at the world rather than as a simple gathering of facts about it. Kai Erikson notes that...
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£30,00
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Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs
ISBN: PB: 9780226492636, ISBN: HB: 9780226492469, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In this incredibly timely book, David Ikard dismantles popular white supremacist tropes, which effectively devalue black life and trivialize black oppression".Lovable Racists, Magical Negroes, and White Messiahs" investigates the tenacity and cultura...
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£18,00
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£54,00
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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...
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£28,00
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£84,50
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Ethnologia Europaea 46:1 Special Issue: Muslim Intimacies
ISBN: PB: 9788763544870, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, October 2017
131 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm
In every society, individual choice and freedom are shaped at least to some degree by the needs of familial and marital institutions. Currently, negotiations between individuals and families are undergoing transformations due to late modern processes...
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£16,50
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Go Back to Where You Came From The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy
ISBN: HB: 9781849049092, Hurst Publishers, October 2017
376 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! From Europe to the United States and beyond, opportunistic politicians have exploited economic crisis, terrorist attacks and an influx of refugees to bring hateful and reactionary views from the margins of political discourse i...
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£17,99
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Social Theory Now
ISBN: PB: 9780226475288, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings
The landscape of social theory has changed significantly over the three decades since the publication of Anthony Giddens and Jonathan Turner's seminal "Social Theory Today". Sociologists in the twenty-first century desperately need a new agenda cente...
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£23,00
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