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Women and Partition A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...
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£26,50
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Woman on the Windowsill A Tale of Mystery in Several Parts
ISBN: HB: 9780300234282, Yale University Press, April 2020
296 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to...
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£25,00
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Writing for Social Scientists How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226643939, ISBN: HB: 9780226683638, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 12 halftones
For more than thirty years, Writing for Social Scientists has been a lifeboat for writers in all fields, from beginning students to published authors. It starts with a powerful reassurance: Academic writing is stressful, and even accomplished scholar...
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£12,00
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£40,00
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When Home Won't Let You Stay Migration through Contemporary Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300247480, Yale University Press, November 2019
240 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm, 134 colour illus.
In this timely volume, artists and thinkers join in conversation around the topic of global migration, examining both its cultural impact and the culture of migration itself. Individual voices shed light on the societal transformations related to mig...
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£40,00
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Women vs Capitalism Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
ISBN: HB: 9781787381742, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
360 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus...
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£12,99
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Women War Photographers From Lee Miller to Anja Niedringhaus
ISBN: HB: 9783791358680, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
224 pp., 28x24 cm, 163 colour illus.
Women have been on the front lines of war for more than a century. With access to places men cannot go, the women who photograph war lend a unique perspective to the consequences of conflict. From intimate glimpses of daily life to the atrocities of...
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£35,00
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Women of Atelier 17 Modernist Printmaking in Midcentury New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300238501, Yale University Press, June 2019
296 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 76 colour illus., 63 black&white illus.
In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists – Louise Bourge...
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£50,00
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Woman's Place U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
ISBN: HB: 9781787381315, Hurst Publishers, June 2019
304 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategies, policies, and practices. While the analysis of these developments is rich and...
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Women Photographers From Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman
ISBN: PB: 9783791384665, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
240 pp., 27x21 cm, 230 colour illus.
Now available in an updated paperback edition and including new photographs, this thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-d...
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£17,99
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Women's Complete Guide to Running
ISBN: PB: 9781782551485, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, August 2018
208 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 50 colour and black&white illus.
This is the book that will take any woman, at any fitness level, into the running lifestyle. Jeff Galloway, a US Olympian in 1972, has helped over 150,000 people make this journey while reducing or eliminating aches, pains, and injuries suffered duri...
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£12,95
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