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Vagrant Figures Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
ISBN: HB: 9780300241310, Yale University Press, February 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before the establishment of the m...
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£50,00
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Extreme Killers Tales of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers
ISBN: PB: 9781454939405, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2021
320 pp., 20.8x14 cm, illus.
For fans of true crime, this fourth entry in the Profiles in Crime series presents history's most "elite" serial killers – master murderers who stretched the psychic envelope and racked up the largest number of victims. Historical in scope and intern...
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£14,99
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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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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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Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood
ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...
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£30,00
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Tough Enough Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil
ISBN: PB: 9780226457802, ISBN: HB: 9780226457772, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories....
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£19,00
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£56,50
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Doing Style Youth and Mass Mediation in South India
ISBN: PB: 9780226327853, ISBN: HB: 9780226327716, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 1 table
In "Doing Style", Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth and mass media in South India, where what Tamil youth call "style" anchors their day-to-day lives and media worlds. Through intimate ethnographic descriptions of college life in Ta...
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£22,50
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£63,00
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Segregation A Global History of Divided Cities
ISBN: PB: 9780226379715, ISBN: HB: 9780226580746, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
528 pp., 23x15 cm, 42 halftones
When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age of Jim Crow – two societies fundamentally premised on the concept of the separation of the races. But as Carl H. Nightingale shows us i...
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£22,50
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£28,00
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Producing Cultural Diversity Hegemonic Knowledge in Global Governance Projects
ISBN: PB: 9783593503165, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2015
245 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 colour plate
How did cultural diversity become a buzzword fraught with tension? And what do the controversies surrounding it reveal about contemporary policy making? "Producing Cultural Diversity" investigates these questions through an empirical analysis of the...
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£42,00
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Emigration and the Sea An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese
ISBN: PB: 9781849044165, Hurst Publishers, April 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese 'Discoveries' of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions...
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£17,99
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