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Charges (The Supplicants)

Jelinek Elfriede

ISBN: PB: 9780857423306, Seagull Books, August 2016
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In recent years, the refugee problem has become impossible to ignore, as multiple crises in the Middle East and Africa have driven thousands of desperate people to attempt Mediterranean crossings in hopes of reaching Europe, and safety. Many have die...

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Longing for Home Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality

Holton M. Jan

ISBN: HB: 9780300207620, Yale University Press, July 2016
224 pp., 21x14 cm

What is it about the concept of "home" that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and theological impact of forced...

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Sport

Midnight Basketball Race, Sports, and Neoliberal Social Policy

Hartmann Douglas

ISBN: PB: 9780226374987, ISBN: HB: 9780226374840, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders – home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls – is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about...

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Biography & Memoires

Gender Studies

Revathi A Life in Trans Activism

Revathi A., Murali Nandini

ISBN: PB: 9789384757755, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

A. Revathi's memoir "The Truth about Me" became a sensation in India when it was published in 2011. The pathbreaking autobiography told the story of Revathi's childhood uneasiness with her male body, her exile to a house of "hijras" (the South Asian...

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Saving the People How Populists Hijack Religion

Marzouki Nadia, McDonnell Duncan, Roy Olivier

ISBN: PB: 9781849045162, ISBN: HB: 9781849045209, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Western democracies are experiencing a new wave of right-wing populism that seeks to mobilise religion for its own ends. With chapters on the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Israel, S...

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Political Science

Nationalism and the Multination State

Dieckhoff Alain

ISBN: PB: 9781849046572, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this h...

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Criminology

Hidden Power The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime

Cockayne James

ISBN: HB: 9781849046350, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What should we make of the outsized role organised crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the conv...

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Women Studies

Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights

Botting Eileen Hunt

ISBN: HB: 9780300186154, Yale University Press, June 2016
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

How can women's rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mi...

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Culture Studies

New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side

Halle David, Tiso Elisabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...

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Asia

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Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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