ledochowicz.com

General

Fatal Isolation The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

Keller Richard C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226251110, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 2 line drawings

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the...

HB:

£28,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Heat Wave A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Klinenberg Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226276182, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones, 3 maps, 7 figures, 12 tables

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Mete...

PB:

£13,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Survival & Combat Guide

Women Studies

Girls Guide to Basic Survival

Johannesen Sarah

ISBN: HB: 9781742575681, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, April 2015
192 pp., 21.8x14.7 cm

"A Girl's Guide to Basic Survival" is every girl's essential reference guide of all those things your mother never taught you – or that you chose not to listen to. It's a practical hands-on, down-to-earth guide focusing on those every day household p...

HB:

£12,99

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Organizing Locally How the New Decentralists Improve Education, Health Care, and Trade

Fuller Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226246543, ISBN: HB: 9780226246406, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We love the local. From the cherries we buy, to the grocer who sells them, to the school where our child unpacks them for lunch, we express resurgent faith in decentralizing the institutions and businesses that arrange our daily lives. But the fact i...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

HB:

£60,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Mixed Messages Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society

Paul Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226240862, ISBN: HB: 9780226240725, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As social and symbolic animals – animals with language and systems of signs – humans are informed by two different kinds of heritage, one biological, the other cultural. Scholars have tended to study our genetic and symbolic lineages separately, but...

PB:

£24,00

QTY:

HB:

£72,00

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Everyday Troubles The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict

Emerson Robert M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226237947, ISBN: HB: 9780226237800, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings

From roommate disputes to family arguments, trouble is inevitable in interpersonal relationships. In "Everyday Troubles", Robert M. Emerson explores the beginnings and development of the conflicts that occur in our relationships with the people we re...

PB:

£28,00

QTY:

HB:

£85,50

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Enigma of Diversity The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice

Berrey Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226246239, ISBN: HB: 9780226246062, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

Diversity these days is a hallowed American value, widely shared and honored. That's a remarkable change from the Civil Rights era – but does this public commitment to diversity constitute a civil rights victory? What does diversity mean in contempor...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

HB:

£60,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Europe

Political Science

Emigration and the Sea An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

Newitt Malyn

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...

PB:

£17,99

QTY:

add books to the list

General

Sociology of Modern China

Rocca Jean-Louis

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...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Business & Economics

General

Song of the Shirt The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh

Seabrook Jeremy

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...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list