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Who Speaks for the Negro?
ISBN: PB: 9780300205107, Yale University Press, December 2014
460 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in 1965, this is a unique text in the history of the American Civil Rights Movement. Robert Penn Warren interviewed a wide range of African American leaders, activists and artists across the country, among them Martin Luther King, Mal...
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£20,00
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It's Complicated The Social Lives of Networked Teens
ISBN: PB: 9780300199000, Yale University Press, December 2014
296 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? Does social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert Danah Boyd uncovers some...
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£10,99
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Worlds Apart Poverty and Politics in Rural America
ISBN: PB: 9780300196597, Yale University Press, December 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her o...
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£18,99
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Remittance Landscape Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA
ISBN: PB: 9780226202815, ISBN: HB: 9780226105130, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 halftones
Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico – one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world. With "The Remittance Landscape", Sarah Lynn Lopez offers the first extended look at what is done with th...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Sexuality of History Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830
ISBN: PB: 9780226187730, ISBN: HB: 9780226187563, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing
The period of reform, revolution, and reaction that characterized seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe also witnessed an intensified interest in lesbians. In scientific treatises and orientalist travelogues, in French court gossip and Dutch cou...
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£26,00
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£71,50
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Walls Enclosure and Ethics in the Modern Landscape
ISBN: HB: 9780226199245, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
Ancient walls, barbed-wire walls, metaphorical walls, political walls: all form, reform, and dissect our world. They mark sacred space and embody earthly power. They maintain peace and cause war. They enforce difference and create unity. Walls are pe...
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£36,00
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Asylum and Exile The Hidden Voices of London
ISBN: HB: 9780857422101, Seagull Books, December 2014
152 pp., 25x15 cm
"Asylum and Exile" is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines to reveal the humanity, tragedy, and bravery of the individuals who have left everything behind to seek sanctuary fr...
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£14,50
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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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Timing of Affect Epistemologies of Affection
ISBN: PB: 9783037346693, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, November 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For "Timing of Affect", Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to expl...
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£26,50
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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...
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£12,99
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