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Souls of Black Folk
ISBN: PB: 9780300195828, Yale University Press, August 2015
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.
This collection of essays by scholar-activist W. E. B. Du Bois is a masterpiece in the African American canon. Du Bois, arguably the most influential African American leader of the early twentieth century, offers insightful commentary on black histor...
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£7,99
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Survey Measurements Techniques, Data Quality and Sources of Error
ISBN: PB: 9783593502809, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
239 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 28 halftones
The accuracy of a survey is directly affected by how the survey is presented, how the questions are worded, and what the format is for responses. In addition, survey methods continue to develop at an accelerating rate to keep step with technological...
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£56,50
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Saving Babies? The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
ISBN: PB: 9780226273617, ISBN: HB: 9780226924977, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 3 line illus.
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United Stat...
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£13,50
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£28,00
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Sociology of Modern China
ISBN: PB: 9781849043533, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Jean-Louis Rocca's admirably concise "Sociology of Modern China" wears its scholarship lightly and paints an intimate and complex portrait of Chinese society in little more than a 130 pages, all the while avoiding cliches and s...
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£22,00
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Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh
ISBN: PB: 9781849045223, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In April 2013 Rana Plaza, an unremarkable eight-story commercial block in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,129 people and injuring over 2,000. Most of them were low paid textile workers who had been ordere...
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£20,00
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Subverting Exclusion Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885-1928
ISBN: PB: 9780300212556, ISBN: HB: 9780300169638, Yale University Press, March 2015
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Ge...
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£18,99
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£38,00
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Shrapnel Minima Writings from Humanities Underground
ISBN: PB: 9780857421876, Seagull Books, December 2014
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
This collection of essays, fiction, poetry and discussions, derived from the cult Internet magazine "HumanitiesUnderground", provides entry into some of the most burning issues in the humanities in contemporary South Asia.  The anthology brings toget...
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£30,00
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Seeing the Light The Social Logic of Personal Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780226175881, ISBN: HB: 9780226175744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 4 line drawings, 1 table
The chorus of the Christian hymn "Amazing Grace" reads, "I once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see". Composed by a minister who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention that ultima...
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£67,50
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Scattered Family Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780226072388, ISBN: HB: 9780226072241, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables
Today's unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In "The Scattered Family", Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanai...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
ISBN: PB: 9780226925011, ISBN: HB: 9780226925004, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm
Power is the central organizing principle of all social life, from culture and education to stratification and taste. And there is no more prominent name in the analysis of power than that of noted sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout his career,...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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