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From Larry Kramer’s New York to Roth’s Newark and Colla’s Baghdad, this collection of 15 essays explores how American co......more
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Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter. However, ......more
The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where univers......more
Discover everything you’ve ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore includ......more
Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the i......more
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This book studies the impact of COVID-19 in South Asia. With case studies from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, the volu......more
Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and unc......more
Adulthood: An Introduction offers a thorough foundation to learn, consolidate, and apply developmental concepts and curr......more
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Leaving the Hills by Tony Curtis is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From......more
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Praise for earlier editions: I have been using this textbook as a required reading for my research class since 2004 beca......more
The radical novelty of modern society consists of the global autonomy and dynamics of communication systems such as the ......more
Taking Place: Environment and Place in Literature and Art explores how works of literature and art help us to rethink t......more
Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary......more
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This book represents a valuable contribution to the history of the Socialist Second International and, more generally, o......more
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Dreams + Disillusions explores the plethora of ideas and ideologies that have shaped and reshaped cities in profound way......more
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The descent of working class movements that began with neoliberal globalization is nearing completion. However, the asce......more
How do you be a gentle parent and still set boundaries? How do you remain calm and prepare your child to face the real w......more
This book explains why, how, and where ethnic political parties unexpectedly seek votes from non-coethnics and when vote......more
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Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily......more
Social Geographies: The Basics introduces what social geography is, and what it might be. It outlines the key contours o......more
"Interrupting our political orthodoxies and engaging an alternative origin story of the modern carceral state, Jump atte......more
Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. Th......more
An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city Newburgh is a small postin......more
Established in 1979 in the premises of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21 in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (TSGM) has ......more
Most agricultural production is of commodity or undifferentiated products. Producers suffer from a roller-coaster ride o......more
No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Cr......more
"Funny and informative, Jade effortlessly hits the sweet spot between silly and sincere to deliver a delightful treat de......more
This book explores innovative approaches to using and operating within and around both criminal law and civil law in the......more
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Mentorship/Methodology brings together emerging and established scholars to consider the relationship between mentoring ......more
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A heterodox compendium of "beasts of waste," playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animals. W......more
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This open access book tells stories of conviviality, solidarity, and everyday management of conflicts and tensions, by b......more
Democracy’s Hidden Heroes tells the story of the local public managers and nonprofit directors who work where bureaucrat......more
Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and cr......more
The book by the well-known German party researcher Elmar Wiesendahl presents the development, theoretical perspectives, ......more
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the......more
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Editors Michael B. Buchholz and Aleksandar Dimitrijevic’ are joined by Ana Altaras Dimitrijevic’, Uta Blohm, Roger Frie,......more
This study aims to understand the materiality of Saba’s ideological landscape during its pre-emancipation colonial perio......more
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Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex......more
In Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodi......more
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This book reviews the role of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in clinical dentistry, explains how to successfully co......more
Who were the actors involved in colonial and post-independence education in Africa? This book on the history of educatio......more
This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex sto......more
In 1680, the poor cottager Mary Herring gave birth to conjoined twins. At two weeks of age, they were kidnapped to be sh......more
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A meditation on the meaning of "liberty" throughout history This critical anthology presents a collection of essays from......more
Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from......more
The Number 1 Bestseller ’A captivating account of lives previously ignored’ Sunday Independent Ireland in the nineteenth......more
In 1860, Eliza Winston escaped enslavement while traveling in Minnesota, where she secured her freedom through legal app......more
This book presents contributions from a multidisciplinary team of researchers who analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pa......more
India has a long-standing cultural and societal affinity with gold and gold jewellery. Gold metaphorically represents th......more
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist......more
In the vein of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia and Martha Gellhorn’s The View from the Ground, a remarkable work of ......more
Roman religion was certainly a contract with the Gods, offering devotion and the blood sacrifices which ’nourished’ them......more
Today over 400,000 Chinese live in Britain, many more attend British universities, and an increasing number visit Britai......more
This innovative text introduces and illustrates case study methodology for nursing research by exploring how it can be u......more
This is a narrative of struggle and solidarity and a collective toolkit for grassroots opposition to the twenty-first ce......more
Lost Illusions, first published in 1988, analyses the differing experiences of Caribbean migration to Britain and the Ne......more
Minorities in the Open Society (1986) challenges optimistic assumptions regarding race relations in western nations, nam......more
Cultural Conflict and Adaptation (1990) examines the alienation and cultural conflicts faced at school by the children o......more
The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Pales......more
One Way Ticket (1983) examines the ’hidden armies’ of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand ......more
Colonial Immigrants in a British City (1979) analyses the relationship between West Indian and Asian immigrants and the ......more
Immigration in Post-War France (1987) presents a collection of articles, illustrations and other data, covering everythi......more
The Development of British Immigration Law (1986) examines the policies and laws of immigration law in the UK. It demons......more
Migration and Mobility (1984) examines the biological aspects of population movement, including genetic, anthropometric ......more
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